Amarilis Yera
Amarilis Yera is a former lead writer at Money, where she specialized in consumer credit and credit cards.
From 2019 onward, she covered topics such as credit scoring, credit repair, debt management, and more. She was an integral part of the credit cards compliance team and served as a resident expert on the best travel, airline, business, and student credit cards, among many others. Amarilis also wrote about other personal finance matters, including insurance and identity theft.
Amarilis developed a keen interest in all things credit after navigating the challenges of being credit-invisible herself. She strived to create easy-to-read content to help people navigate the intricacies of the credit system. She was particularly passionate about exploring credit card fine print to provide cardholders with detailed explanations of the benefits and features they might overlook.
She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a Bachelor's in Linguistics and a minor in Writing and Communication. Her work has been featured in MSN, Yahoo! Money, Nasdaq, and more.
Before joining Money, Amarilis was a freelance journalist for Noticel, Puerto Rico's first and only exclusively digital newspaper. As a journalist, she covered local news and various topics such as science and technology, education, entertainment, and more. She was also a writer for the Scientific Communications Laboratory at WIPR, Puerto Rico’s public broadcasting station.
