Personal finance journalist Andrea Coombes has left NerdWallet to become a personal finance coach.
Coombes is now working one-on-one with consumers at the SF LGBT Center to help them reach their money goals.
She had joined NerdWallet in 2017 and covered investing and retirement. Before that, Coombes had spent a decade at MarketWatch.com, including two years as an editor where she oversaw personal finance content.
She’s been a guest on national and local television and radio shows, and her stories have appeared online and in newspapers nationwide, including the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Miami Herald and San Francisco Chronicle. Coombes, based in San Francisco, has won awards from the National Endowment for Financial Education, the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Consumer Advocates.