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Erica Harrington
Senior Copy Editor
Expertise
Editing
Previous experience
Copy editor at CNN Digital
Copy editor at the Chicago Tribune
Education
M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University
Erica Harrington manages the copy desk at NerdWallet. She has more than 20 years of copy-editing experience, including at the Chicago Tribune and CNN Digital. At those outlets, she edited content including business, city and state politics, arts and entertainment, and national and international affairs. Erica also has taught English as a second language at corporations in Santiago, Chile. She has produced white papers for the United Nations. She is based in Atlanta.