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Kristin Wong

Kristin WongSpecialties: Millennial personal finance, women and negotiating, freelancing and creative careers, psychology of money
Home base: Los Angeles
Web site: www.kristinwong.com

Kristin Wong is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazineand Glamour. She frequently writes about personal finance, career and human behavior. Her first book, Get Money: Live the Life You Want, Not Just the life You Can Afford (Hachette Books, 2018), is a gamified guide to personal finance, incorporating basic money advice into actionable challenges to help readers feel financially empowered. Booklist called it a “well-written and leisurely guide to modern financial literacy.”Get Money book jacket

Kristin received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Houston, where she graduated cum laude. She worked as a technical writer for two years before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television writing. She wrote for a nationally syndicated entertainment news show and created a web series for Fox Digital that lived on Netflix. In 2012, Kristin began writing and producing videos for MSN Living, where she and her editor received an award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Kristin is currently a freelance writer and journalist and regularly contributes to publication including The New York Times and Glamour magazine. She’s also written for NBCNews.com, New York Magazine’s “The Cut” and Mental_floss. She also launched Lifehacker’s personal finance blog, “Two Cents,” where she built an audience of about 800,000 monthly readers.

Kristin has appeared on Fox Business, Buzzfeed’s AM2DM, WNYC and a number of podcasts and radio shows to discuss her work, typically on the topic of negotiating, personal finance and freelancing. She is a sought-after speaker and has presented material at the Lola Retreat in New York City, the Actor’s Fund in Los Angeles and the Road to Financial Wellness financial literacy tour. Editors and readers often praise Kristin’s ability to discuss complicated financial topics in a manner that is both engaging and accessible. Kristin offers bite-sized money advice to her growing YouTube audience of 12,000 viewers at The Wild Wong.

Her work has been featured in U.S. News and World Report, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, Business Insider and Forbes. Kristin also works with aspiring writers to help them navigate the freelance writing business. She is an advocate for financial literacy and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Suggested Topics

  • Level Up Your Money
    Learn the basics of money management, with actionable advice on how to build a first budget, improve their credit scores, find a better bank, and even negotiate job offers.

  • Let’s Talk Money
    The taboo of money: why it’s so hard to talk about it, why we should embrace talking about money more openly, and how we can better embrace financial literacy. This workshop is filled with actionable tips for breaking the money taboo and learning about personal finance.

  • Smashing the Glass Ceiling
    Based on research about women and negotiating in the workplace, Kristin offers advice on how women can learn to speak up and advocate for themselves and what they should consider before heeding the blanket advice “always ask.” It’s a nuanced topic that deserves thorough consideration, and, in this workshop, Kristin covers the basics of negotiating but also digs into the issues that women should consider when they make the ask.

  • Managing Money for Creatives
    This workshop covers personal finance specifics for freelancers and creatives in the workforce. From taxes to retirement savings, Kristin answers questions that creative professionals often face. She discusses different work models for balancing creative work with income-earning and breaks down the “starving artist” mindset that often keeps creatives from reaching their earning potential.

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