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Mary Makarushka
Assigning Editor
Expertise
Housing market trends•
mortgage rates•
homebuying and selling
Education
B.A. in English from Barnard College
M.A. from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mary Makarushka is a former editor on the Home/Mortgages team at NerdWallet. She was previously managing editor of Bloomberg Personal Finance and has also held editing positions at Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer and Manhattan, inc. For the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was in charge of health communication strategy for the campus throughout the H1N1 influenza pandemic.