Michelle Singletary
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Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Her column, "The Color of Money," is carried in more than 120 newspapers across the country including the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Tampa Tribune and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Singletary is also the host of a live online chat on the Post's Web site, washingtonpost.com. She also has a widely read electronic newsletter with more than 150,000 subscribers distributed by The Washington Post. In her column, chats, newsletter, television show and books Singletary delivers advice on personal finance issues that range from lending your honey money (don’t do it), to raising money smart kids to the importance of saving and investing.
In 2003, she published her first book, 7 Money Mantras For A Richer Life: How To Live Well With The Money You Have. Her second book, Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich was released in 2006. She is currently working on a proposal for a third book. Singletary’s book, Your Money and Your Man was a finalist for “Books for a Better Life,” which honors the best self-improvement books.
Singletary is a regular personal finance contributor for National Public Radio’s afternoon program “Day To Day.” She is frequently asked to appear on local and national radio programs including the “Diane Rehm Show.” She has prepared personal finance segments for a number of network and nationally syndicated programs, including "Oprah," "The Today Show,” “The Early Show on CBS,” "Nightline," CNN, "The View,” and “Tavis Smiley” on PBS. In 2000, she was recruited as a regular contributor of financial segments for MSNBC.