CFP® + Enrolled Agent · Kansas State MS PFP · 12 Years Experience
Anna Reynolds is a CFP® (Certified Financial Planner) and Enrolled Agent (EA) — credentials she earned after a career pivot from student loan policy into financial journalism. She holds an MS in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University (the program that trains more CFP-holding journalists than any other in the US) and a BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri. Before MONEYlume, Anna spent 4 years as a policy analyst at the US Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid, where she helped administer the PSLF waiver program and Income-Driven Repayment recalculations.
She then joined Fundera as a senior education finance writer before moving to MONEYlume. Her student loan analysis has been cited by the Associated Press, USA Today, and CNBC Make It. At MONEYlume, Anna covers every dimension of the $1.77 trillion student debt crisis: which repayment plan saves you the most money, how PSLF actually works in practice, and what loan servicer mistakes cost borrowers thousands.
View LinkedIn ProfileEducation: MS Personal Financial Planning, Kansas State University · BA Journalism, University of Missouri · CFP® (CFP Board) · EA (IRS)
All content by Anna Reynolds, CFP®, EA is written according to MONEYlume's editorial standards. Facts are verified against primary sources including the IRS, Federal Reserve, CFPB, and peer-reviewed financial research. Articles are updated when regulations or market conditions change significantly.