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Margarette Burnette
Senior Writer & Content Strategist
Expertise
Savings accounts•
Money market accounts•
Banking
How I Think About Money“When it comes to saving money, find a way to start with something easy and then build on it. The less effort required, the better.”
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.