21+ Years of Experience
100+ Articles Written
3.2M+ Readers Reached
Previous experience
Good Housekeeping Magazine, Parenting Magazine, ESSENCE Magazine
Education
B.S. in business administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Margarette Burnette is a NerdWallet authority on savings, who has been writing about bank accounts since before the Great Recession. Her work has been featured in The Associated Press, USA Today and other major newspapers. Before joining NerdWallet, Margarette was a freelance journalist with bylines in magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Black Enterprise and Parenting. She is based near Atlanta, Georgia.
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