Athena Valentine Lent is an award-winning financial columnist for Slate Magazine. Besides Slate Magazine, Athena has written for BuzzFeed, Prudential, Experian, T. Rowe Price, The College Investor, GOBanking Rates, and Money Under 30, to name a few. She’s also the community liaison for FinCon, an annual conference for content creators and brands in the financial industry. When not working, you can find her reading a Stephen King novel with her main man, a polydactyl cat named Harrison George.