Sarah Brady
Personal Finance Writer & Credit Expert
Sarah Brady is a San Francisco-based personal finance writer, credit expert, and former certified credit and housing counselor with nearly a decade of freelance writing experience. Her work has appeared in Forbes Advisor, Yahoo Finance, USA Today Blueprint, Kiplinger, Investopedia, TIME, Credit Karma, Experian, AARP, and many more. A graduate of San Francisco State University, she combines real-world financial expertise — including loan underwriting and HUD-certified homebuyer counseling — with clear, accessible writing.
About Sarah Brady
Sarah Brady is one of the most credentialed voices in personal finance writing, combining professional financial expertise with a writer’s gift for making complex topics feel manageable and human. Based in San Francisco, Brady brings a background that most finance writers simply don’t have: she is a former certified credit counselor (NFCC), a former HUD-certified homebuyer counselor, and a former loan underwriter — roles that gave her deep, firsthand knowledge of how money actually works in people’s lives before she ever wrote a word about it.
A San Francisco State University graduate, Brady launched her freelance writing career in 2016 and has since become a trusted byline across the personal finance landscape. Her work appears regularly in Forbes Advisor, Yahoo Finance, USA Today Blueprint, Kiplinger, Investopedia, TIME, Credit Karma, Experian, AARP, CNN Underscored Money, Fortune Recommends, LendingTree, and many others. She has served as a Content Strategist, Editor, and Writer for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, the organization that certified her as a counselor years earlier.
Brady’s subject expertise spans consumer credit, banking, mortgages, car buying, credit cards, insurance, student loans, cybersecurity, scams, and cryptocurrency — a breadth that reflects not just her writing range but her genuine fluency in the systems that shape financial life. Editors who work with her consistently note her reliability, thoroughness, and the clean, well-researched copy she delivers under deadline.
At National Today, Brady brings that same combination of expertise and accessibility to content covering financial observances, money-related holidays, and the economic dimensions of cultural life. Her ability to demystify difficult topics without oversimplifying them is a consistent asset across every assignment.