Our Editorial Team and Contributors

Dan Nelson: Founder & Editor

Dan Nelson is an entrepreneur and financial blogger. His primary focus and area of interest is on FDIC-insured deposit accounts and alternative investments.

Lauren Graves: Contributor & Editor

Lauren is a writer and editor specializing in personal finance and education. She works for the digital publishing company, Dotdash, as a content update editor and writes for SavingforCollege when she’s not writing for APYGUY. A former educator, she is passionate about teaching and hopes to help others save and spend smarter through accessible and informative writing.

Rachel Morey

Rachel Morey is a financial journalist who has been writing professionally for over a decade, specializing in making complicated financial subjects easy to understand. A native Iowan, Rachel has a special fondness for the open roads of rural America.

Jeremy Wagner

Jeremy is currently an expert and educator who analyzes the markets to find investments and trading opportunities within cryptocurrency and FX. Jeremy has conducted currency education classes on five continents and has been interviewed on CNBCAsia and SkyNews. His work has been viewed by millions of people over the past 10 years.

Ken Boyd

Ken is a 4-time Dummies author and senior financial blogger. Ken is the author of Cost Accounting for Dummies, Accounting All-In-One for Dummies, The CPA Exam for Dummies, and 1,001 Accounting Questions for Dummies.

Angelica Leicht

Angelica is a writer and editor who specializes in personal finance content. She tackles everything from interest rate trends and racial biases in mortgage lending to the role of fintech in lending practices. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Motley Fool, Interest, Bankrate, The Simple Dollar, The Spruce, Houston Press, Dallas Observer, and VeryWell, among others.

Kevin O’Brien

Kevin is a crypto journalist that regularly works with Bitcoinist, CCN and CryptoGlobe and collaborates on white papers and a variety of research in the crypto space. His focus is on decentralized finance and the impacts cryptocurrency and blockchain have on economics, culture, politics and international relations.

Kevin Flynn

Kevin D. Flynn is a technology coach for registered investment advisors and financial planners. He’s based in Leominster, Massachusetts, birthplace of Johnny Appleseed and hometown of the original Pink Flamingo.

J.B. Maverick

J.B. Maverick has written hundreds of articles, blogs, and eBooks on virtually every aspect of personal finance and investing. He’s been a contributor for Investopedia, QuickBooks and Intuit, the Financial Educators Council, the Corporate Finance Institute, and the Steve Pomeranz Show (a personal financial advisor radio program that ran weekly on NPR, from 2001 through early 2020).