Kelli B. Grant, CFP®

Kelli B. Grant is the senior personal finance editor at CNBC. She is one of a small number of working journalists to hold the Certified Financial Planner® designation.

Previously, Kelli was a senior editor at Grow, CNBC’s partnership with fintech app Acorns, and a reporter covering personal finance and consumer spending for CNBC Digital. Before joining CNBC, she was a senior consumer reporter for MarketWatch and SmartMoney.

Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple and Family Circle, among other publications.

Kelli holds a master’s degree in personal financial planning from Kansas State University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and anthropology from Ithaca College.