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Kerry Hannon

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Washington, D.C.
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Covers:  personal finance, careers, retirement, jobs, boomers
Speaker, Workplace Futurist,Strategist–Careers, Retirement– Senior Columnist @YahooFinance, Author In Control at 50+, Never Too Old To Get Rich and more @DukeU
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Kerry Hannon’s Biography

Kerry Hannon is a bestselling author and Washington, DC-based career, retirement and personal finance expert and a popular motivational speaker.

Kerry’s latest book is the national bestseller Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy ... And Pays the Bills (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).

Kerry has spent more than 25 years covering all aspects of personal finance for the nation's leading media companies, including The New York Times, Forbes, Money, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. She is a nationally recognized authority on boomer career transitions and retirement.

She is AARP’s Jobs Expert and is the Great Jobs columnist for AARP.org.

Kerry is a contributing editor at Forbes Magazine and the Second Verse columnist for Forbes.com and is recognized as the Forbes’ bard of career transitions and “working” retirement issues.

She is the PBS web site NextAvenue.org expert on career and personal finance for boomer women and writes a weekly column.

Kerry contributes regularly to The New York Times and Money magazine.

She is a Metlife Foundation and New America Media Fellow on Aging.

She is the award-winning author of What's Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books, 2010). Berkley/Penguin will publish this updated and revised paperback in April 2014.

Kerry is also the author of Getting Started In Estate Planning (John Wiley & Sons), Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows (John Wiley & Sons), Ten Minute Guide to Retirement for Women (MacMillan Publishing)

She has appeared as a financial expert on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ABC News, CBS, Fox, CNBC, CNN, and PBS and has been a guest on numerous radio programs.

Follow Kerry on Twitter @KerryHannon and visit her website, KerryHannon.com and her LinkedIn profile.