Biographies (By Order of Chapter) - II

Beth Kobliner Beth Kobliner has been writing and speaking on personal finance for more than fifteen years. She is the author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties (Simon & Schuster), a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and a Business Week bestseller for two years running. As a financial expert, Kobliner regularly appears on television and radio. She has been a regular commentator on MSNBC and has been a repeat guest on CNN, World News This Morning (ABC), Oprah, Today (NBC), This Morning (CBS), CNBC, and public radio's Talk of the Nation and Marketplace. Beth holds a B.A. from Brown University. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City. 

Elizabeth Warren Professor Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the co-author of eight books and more than a hundred scholarly articles. Her latest book with her coauthor daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi is All Your Worth. This book talks with a wide audience in mind about money; it was listed on both the Wall Street Journal business book bestseller list and the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. Her earlier book, also with Tyagi, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, has been the subject of reviews and new stories from Time and Newsweek to Dr. Phil. Warren has been principal investigator on empirical studies funded by the National Science Foundation and more than a dozen private foundations. She serves on the steering committee of the Tobin Project, the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, and a committee to Advise the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about consumer financial issues. The National Law Journal has repeatedly named Professor Warren as one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Attorneys in America. 

Amelia Warren Tyagi Amelia Warren Tyagi is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Business Talent Group. She co-authored All Your Worth and The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke. Previously, Ms. Tyagi co-founded HealthAllies, a venture capital-backed health benefits firm which was later acquired by United Health Group. She began her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She has written for Time, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, and other publications on a variety of topics including the US economy, health care, and women and work, and she is a regular commentator for the nationally syndicated radio show Marketplace. Ms. Tyagi serves on the board of Demos, a prominent progressive think tank. She holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. She is also mother of two daughters, ages 6 and 2. Amelia lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and young daughter. Elizabeth and Amelia are mother and daughter.