Kelly Suzan Waggoner

Kelly Suzan Waggoner

Editor-in-chief

Kelly Suzan Waggoner is a Personal Finance Editor at AOL and the former US editor-in-chief at Finder, where she worked with a talented team of expert writers and editors focused on helping readers to save money, earn money and grow their wealth. She joined Finder in 2016 as an editor, germinating the site from money transfers to include the wide scope of personal finance.

Kelly has worked with publishers, magazines and nonprofits throughout New York City to develop best practices around editorial, SEO, plain language and accessibility, including Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, HauteLife Press and Queerty. She is quoted on such sites as Lifehacker and CertifiKid, and ghostwrote Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies, published by Wiley.

Kelly earned a BA in English from Russell Sage College and a Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing from Poynter News University. She is trained in digital and website accessibility and plain language, and is a member of ACES: The Society for Editing and the Center for Plain Language. Between projects, she toys with words, flips through style guides and fantasizes about the serial comma’s world domination.

Expertise

  • Plain Language Consultant
  • Editorial SEO
  • Digital and website accessibility

Experience

  • Member ACES: The Society for Editing and the Center for Plain Language

Education

  • BA in English, Summa Cum Laude | Russell Sage College
  • June Joyce Herron Award for Excellence in English
  • Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing from Poynter News University

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