Amarilis Yera
Expertise
- Accounting
- Business Administration
- Business Management
- MBAs
- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Consumer Credit
Education
- BA in Linguistics, University of Puerto Rico
Other Publications
- The Recent Graduate’s Guide to Reading a Credit Report — and What to Watch Out For (Money.com)
- 8 Steps to Boost Your Credit Score Before — and After — Graduation (Money.com)
- Do Student Loans Affect Your Credit Score? (Money.com)
- Debt Settlement, Credit Repair Or Credit Counseling: Which One Is Right For You? (Money.com)
- Struggling With Debt? Here Are 4 Options to Get Things Under Control (Money.com)
Amarilis Yera is an editor at BestColleges, focusing on business topics, including business administration, business management, marketing, and human resources.
Before joining BestColleges, she spent over four years at Money as a lead personal finance writer specializing in consumer credit and identity theft. She was also the resident expert on credit cards, discussing rewards programs, fees, interest rates, and perks to help readers find the best business, airline, travel, and student credit cards.
Additionally, Amarilis was a freelance journalist for Noticel, Puerto Rico’s first and only exclusively digital newspaper. There, she covered topics related to education, science and technology, and local news. She was also a writer for the Scientific Communications Laboratory at WIPR, Puerto Rico’s public broadcasting station.
Her work has been featured on outlets such as MSN, Yahoo! Money, and Nasdaq.
She holds a bachelor of arts in linguistics and a minor in writing and communication from the University of Puerto Rico.
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