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Ryan Lane
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Expertise
Small business•
student loans
How I Think About Money“Money is all about choice. But figuring out what to do with it takes time. That’s something business owners famously don’t have a lot of. My job? Write clear and concise guidance that gets you back to your job.”
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American Student Assistance; managing editor
Cell Press
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Ryan Lane is an editor on NerdWallet’s small-business team. He joined NerdWallet in 2019 as a student loans writer, serving as an authority on that topic after spending more than a decade at student loan guarantor American Student Assistance. In that role, Ryan co-authored the Student Loan Ranger blog in partnership with U.S. News & World Report, as well as wrote and edited content about education financing and financial literacy for multiple online properties, e-courses and more. Ryan also previously oversaw the production of life science journals as a managing editor for publisher Cell Press. Ryan is located in Rochester, New York.
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