Michelle Singletary

Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for The Washington Post and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. Her award-winning "The Color of Money" column appears in newspapers across the country.

In January 2006, Singletary launched her first national television program, “Singletary Says,” on TV One, owned by Radio One and Comcast. “Singletary Says” is a half-hour personal finance reality show in which Singletary visits people in their homes to help resolve various financial issues. Her first personal finance special for TV One, “Real Estate Realties: When the Boom Goes Bust" aired in 2008. The special focused on how the real estate crisis affected the African-American community.
 
Singletary has been a regular personal finance contributor for National Public Radio’s afternoon program “Day To Day” for more than three years. Her segments for NPR are available via podcast. She is an AOL money coach having produced a series of workshops on love and money.

She is frequently asked to appear on local and national radio programs including the “Diane Rehm Show.” She has appeared on all three major networks, NBC, ABC and CBS. She has prepared personal finance segments for local and national news programs, and for a number of network and nationally syndicated programs, including "Oprah,” “NBC’s Today Show,” “The Early Show on CBS,” "Nightline," CNN, "The View,” and “Tavis Smiley” on PBS. She has appeared on "Meet The Press" and other national news programs.  In 2000, she was recruited as a regular contributor to do live financial segments for MSNBC.

Singletary currently is host of a live online chat on the Post's Web site, washingtonpost.com. She also has a widely read electronic newsletter with more than 200,000 subscribers distributed by The Washington Post. Her e-letter is one of the more popular newsletters distributed by The Washington Post. In her column, chats, newsletter, television show and books Singletary delivers advice on personal finance issues that range from lending your honey money (don’t do it), to raising money-smart kids to the importance of saving and investing.

In her spare time, Singletary is the director of “Prosperity Partners Ministry,” a program she founded at her church in which women and men who handle their money well volunteer to mentor others who are having financial challenges. Once a month, Singletary conducts a workshop for the ministry group on topics that range from tithing, to developing a budget, to getting out of debt.

Before coming to the Post, Singletary was a business reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun, where she also covered police, religion, politics, and zoning. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, and Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master's degree in business and management. Singletary and her husband reside in Maryland with their three children.