Rae Hartley Beck
- 8+ years experience writing about personal finance
- Started a personal finance column for her college newspaper sharing ways to live, save, and travel with limited means
- Currently writes about mortgages, home-buying, and credit card rewards
Expertise
Mortgages, home-buying, credit cards
Personal finance experience
Rae Hartley Beck went from having her family home foreclosed on when she was in high school to becoming a homeowner at age 24. Her experience has fueled a passion for volunteering with a range of nonprofits, such as the Girl Scouts of America, teaching financial literacy to young people.
Rae has been a proponent of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement for more than 10 years and leads several book clubs on financial topics, including one for the Women’s Personal Finance (Women on FIRE) Facebook community. For the last five years Rae’s main career has been working in social services. Secondary jobs include real estate investing, personal finance coaching, personal finance writing, and nonprofit advising.
Previous experience
In addition to writing for Credible, Rae currently writes about mortgages, home-buying, and credit card rewards for Investopedia. Her work has also been featured on Bankrate and MoneyWise.
Education
Rae received her bachelor’s from Berea College, with a double major in History with a concentration on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Education Studies, with a concentration on alternative and outdoor education.
