We know that the pandemic hit women of color and the LGBTQ+ community particularly hard, including economically. With millions facing mounting debt and a sluggish economic recovery, The 19th’s economy reporter Chabeli Carrazana will be bringing your financial questions to veteran financial journalist Mandi Woodruff and financial educator and author Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, co-hosts of the podcast Brown Ambition.

Join us on Thursday, April 29 at 12 p.m. CT/1 p.m. ET for answers to your questions about personal finance and economic recovery amid the pandemic.

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📝  What questions do you have for Mandi and Tiffany? What financial challenges are you currently facing — as students, job seekers, caregivers, business owners, retirees? What do you want to know about managing your money, business or career? Submit your questions here and we may ask them during the event.

Mandi Woodruff is executive editor of MagnifyMoney.com and co-host of the Brown Ambition podcast. Previously, Woodruff was the personal finance editor at Business Insider and a personal finance reporter for Yahoo Finance, where she hosted the weekly web series “Money Minute”  and “The Payoff.” Woodruff is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Journalism & Women Symposium.

Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Alicheis co-host of the Brown Ambition podcast, author of The One Week Budget and Get Good With Money, and founder of The Budgetnista’s Live Richer Challenge series. In addition to teaching and speaking on personal finance, she writes for The Huffington Post and U.S. News and World Report.

Chabeli Carrazana is The 19th's economy reporter. Previously, she worked as a business reporter for the Miami Herald, where she covered the tourism industry, and the Orlando Sentinel, where she covered NASA, the private space industry and labor issues.

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