Dana Miranda
Personal finance journalist and author
Dana Miranda is a personal finance journalist and the author of You Don't Need a Budget. She created the Healthy Rich newsletter.
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Born in Berlin, Wisconsin, United States

About Dana Miranda
Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance and a financial journalist. She was raised in a small Wisconsin town by a working-class family, and she began working in personal finance media in 2015. After stepping away from a leadership role at a financial media startup and freelancing for two years, she created Healthy Rich, a newsletter aimed at changing how people talk about money. She writes about the way capitalism shapes how people think about, teach and discuss money. She answers readers' questions in the syndicated "Dear Penny" advice column and has written for Business Insider, Fortune, CNET Money and Salon. Her book You Don't Need a Budget was published by Little, Brown Spark in 2024.
