Joanne Cleaver

Freelance business journalist & editorial content director with extensive experience covering diversity, equity & inclusion, especially women's career issues and lifelong economic independence; personal finance, investing and retirement planning; homeownership, including finance, renovation and individual investing; entrepreneurship and economic development; profiles; long-form, including books; and travel. As the former diversity, equity and inclusion editor for InvestmentNews, I informed and challenged this important profession to think and act differently about how it defines and fosters wealth for all Americans. Before joining InvestmentNews, I made the most of freelancing since 1981, when I graduated from Medill with an MSJ and commenced with a family and a career right away, at the same time. From nearly two decades of writing weekly for Crain's Chicago Business and other Crain's publications, to the Chicago Tribune, a stint as a deputy business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, national magazines and widely known websites (USNews.com, BobVila.com, CBS Moneywatch), I've brought readers insight and information about careers, entrepreneurship, women in business, investing, retirement planning, corporate culture, and general business news and profiles. And yes, as the Real Mrs. Cleaver, I quilt, sew, bake and generally make domestic, fulfilling my destiny as a living cultural pun. See my work at jycleaver.com; and read about my latest book, The Career Lattice, at www.thecareerlattice.com.