Jennifer Barrett
- Chief Education Officer
Jennifer Barrett is the Chief Education Officer at Acorns, a financial wellness app with more than 5 million users. Before joining Acorns, she held various management roles in media, including Personal Finance Editor at CNBC and Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at DailyWorth, a financial media company targeting women. She also served as a General Manager at Hearst Digital, overseeing four magazine sites, including Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.
A longtime financial literacy advocate and award-winning journalist, Jennifer began her financial journalism career as the foreign exchange columnist for The Wall Street Journal and spent seven years at Newsweek, where she was a staff writer and editor. The co-author of two personal finance books, she’s also written for several national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth and Money. She's currently working on a book about breadwinning women. Follow her on Twitter @JBarrettNYC.
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