Lauren Clifford

Lauren Clifford is a staff writer at LendingTree, where she covers personal loans, credit cards and auto loans. She has written popular LendingTree articles including Best Personal Loans and 88% Say They’ve Changed Grocery Shopping Habits Due to Inflation — Here’s How. Lauren is also responsible for developing the rating methodologies for several auto loans pages.

Lauren helps readers connect the dots between where they are financially and where they want to be. She prioritizes tips and insights that readers can take home and use right away.

Before joining LendingTree, she worked in the education sector as a college counselor and marketing associate. Lauren is passionate about using clear, concise language to empower readers as they make important financial decisions.

Specialties

• Personal loans
• Auto loans
• Credit cards
• Personal finances and debt
• Credit score improvement

Achievements

• 100+ articles written for LendingTree
  
• 6+ years of writing and editing experience

Education

• BA, University of California, Los Angeles
• MA, New York University

Bringing work home

“My four-year-old son has recently shown an interest in money. I’ll sometimes chat with him about the basics, but I wasn’t sure how much he was retaining until he offered to sell me a piece of his pizza for $100,000 at dinner last week. When I countered with $2, he told me I could ‘just get a loan’ to pay him the full $100,000.”