"Navigating Credit" with Melissa Lambarena

by AS Community Financial Fund

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Back to 2024 Community Financial Fund (CFF) Spring Speaker Series

Wed, Apr 24, 2024

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)

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Melissa Lambarena, a Senior Writer at NerdWallet, joins us to provide tips and tricks on the complex world of credit. Understand how to jumpstart your credit journey and why it’s important to start early. Learn about different credit-building options and how to manage them strategically to have more opportunities after graduation.

This event is a part of the 2024 Spring Speaker Series, hosted by the A.S. Community Financial Fund. For questions, please contact Claudia Lee at cffexternalvc@as.ucsb.edu.

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Melissa Lambarena

Senior Writer

NerdWallet

Melissa Lambarena is a Senior Writer on the credit cards team at NerdWallet. She has enthusiastically covered credit card-related topics for over seven years. Her prior experience includes nine years as a content creator for several publications and websites. Through her work, she aims to help readers extract value from credit cards to meet financial goals like stretching their budget, building credit, traveling to dream destinations, and paying off debt. She explores these topics in the Millennial Money column featured in The Associated Press. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Yahoo Finance, among others. Melissa has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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