Brianna McGurran

Brianna McGurran is a freelance writer and editor based in Berlin, Germany. She has covered credit, loans, personal finance, insurance and more for Experian for over six years and previously worked as a lead writer at NerdWallet, where her expertise centered on student loans and finance for young people. At NerdWallet she served as a spokesperson for national media including The Today Show and ABC World News Tonight and wrote a personal finance advice column, "Ask Brianna," which was syndicated by The Associated Press and regularly appeared in more than 250 news outlets. As an editor and spokesperson at Forbes Advisor, she focused on loans. Since 2019, Brianna has been a freelance writer and editor for clients in the fields of personal finance, tech, scientific research and more.

Expertise

Credit, student loans, mortgages, paying off debt, budgeting

Experience

Brianna studied business and economics journalism in graduate school, and since then, most of her professional writing and editing experience has centered on personal finance. She worked on staff at NerdWallet and Forbes Advisor, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and USA Today, The Balance, CNN, Forbes Advisor and LendingTree.