Alene Laney

Alene Laney is a personal finance writer based in the Southwest. Her body of work spans topics from credit cards to retirement and has been featured in national financial publications such as SoFi, Business Insider, Time, The Balance, and others. 

Prior to writing online personal finance content, she spent time in public relations, wrote for a regional newspaper, and encouraged high school writers as a teacher. Her background as a teacher helps her empathize with and write for every family trying to make sense of their finances.