Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post

Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Her column, "The Color of Money" is award-winning column, and is carried in more than 100 newspapers across the country including the Detroit Free Press, Boston Globe Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Dallas Morning News, and Tampa Tribune.

She is the author of three books, "The 21 Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom," published by Zondervan, a HarperCollins company; "Spend Well, Live Rich: How to Live Well With the Money You Have" (Random House) and "Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich" (Random House). "Your Money and Your Man" was a finalist in 2006 for "Books for a Better Life," which honors the best self-improvement books. This highly regarded award promotes the importance of one of the largest and fastest-growing segments in the book publishing business.

She has appeared on all three major networks, NBC, ABC and CBS. She has prepared personal finance segments for local and national news programs, and for a number of network and nationally syndicated programs, including "Oprah," "NBC's Today Show," "The Early Show on CBS," "Nightline," CNN, "The View," and "Tavis Smiley" on PBS. She has appeared on "Meet The Press" and other national news programs, including CNN. In 2000, she was recruited as a regular contributor to do live financial segments for MSNBC. For nearly a decade Singletary was also a regular contributor on Howard University's evening news radio program, "Insight." Singletary was a regular correspondent on BET's "Real Business."

Singletary is currently the host of a weekly live online chat on the Post's Web site, washingtonpost.com. She also has a widely read weekly electronic newsletter with more than 145,000 subscribers distributed by The Washington Post. Her e-letter is one of the more popular newsletters distributed by The Washington Post. In her column, chats, newsletter, television show and books Singletary delivers advice on personal finance issues that range from lending your honey money (don't do it), to raising money smart kids to the importance of saving and investing.