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Kerry Hannon

Specialties: personal finance, retirement, careers, women and money
Home base: Washington, DC
Web site: www.kerryhannon.com

Kerry Hannon is a contributing editor to Forbes magazine and writes the “Second Verse” column for Forbes.com. She is AARP’s Jobs Expert and writes the “Great Jobs for Retirees” column. She is the PBS Web site NextAvenue.org expert on personal finance for boomer woment and writes a weekly column. Hannon’s forthcoming book Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy … And Pays the Bills, will be published by John Wiley & Sons, September 2012.She is also the author of award-winning What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books, 2010) and is a featured contributor to 65 Things To Do When You Retire (Sellers Publishing, 2012). Hannon’s previous books include Getting Started In Estate Planning (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows (John Wiley & Sons, 1998), Ten-Minute Guide to Retirement for Women (MacMillan Publishing, 1996) and You and Your Money: A Passage from Debt to Prosperity (Credit Education Group, 2005). She has published one nonfiction saga of an American Indian Trading Post, Trees in a Circle: The Teec Nos Pos Story (Teec Nos Pos Trading Post).

Hannon is a MetLife Foundation Fellow On Aging. She is the Money section book review columnist for USA Today and as a writer and editor for U.S. News & World Report, Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Forbes. She was a regular women and money columnist for iVillage.com. Hannon’s work has been published at CBS MoneyWatch.com, and in AARP Bulletin Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investorand Advertising Age, among other national publications.She has appeared as a financial expert on ABC News, CBS, Fox, CNBC, and CNN and has been a guest on numerous radio programs, including National Public Radio’s “Talk of The Nation.”

Suggested Topics

• Boomers: Career Transition, Second Acts
• Retirement: Planning, Working in Retirement
• Women and Money
• Great Jobs for 50+
• Older Workers and Fighting Age Discrimination

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What People Say About Kerry Hannon

“Kerry Hannon is one of the best and most experienced personal finance writers in the country.”
—Ray Goldbacher, Money Editor, USATODAY.com

“Kerry Hannon is a top-rate personal finance journalist who is filled with smart, practical advice that can help you get your life on the right financial track.”
—Diane Harris, Executive Editor, Money Magazine

“Kerry reported on the phenomenon that Civic Ventures is promoting — the idea of encore careers that combine purpose, passion and paychecks for people in the second half of life. She always understands the nuances of a story and tells it in a way that is both honest and compelling.”
—Jim Emerman , Executive Vice President , Civic Ventures

 “Hannon provides practical advice on landing the job of your dreams.”
—AARP/Your Life Calling with Jane Pauley, The Today Show