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Weekly Personal Finance Contributor, Michelle Singletary of ABC’s The Revolution, is passionate about getting people to face their emotional roadblocks when it comes to money.  She believes the key to financial health is living as debt free as possible and living below ones means.  With her no-nonsense approach and plenty of warmth and humor, Singletary shows viewers how to become financially fit.

Singletary writes the award winning, nationally syndicated personal finance column, "The Color of Money" for The Washington Post. The hugely successful column is syndicated in more than 100 newspapers around the country reaching millions of readers. Just a year after starting her column, The Washington Post nominated it for a Pulitzer Prize. Her column won a prestigious award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She won Best in Business for a series of columns that ran in 2007. In 2009, she was selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Johns Hopkins University. She also received the 2009 Matrix Award for Professional Achievements from The Association for Women in Communications. In 1994, she was awarded a fellowship by NABJ to write about small women-owned businesses in West Africa. While in Africa, she helped cover the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela, and shared the lead story on Election Day with the Post's foreign correspondent, writing about a Soweto family's day at the polls.

Singletary is the author of three books: Spend Well, Live Rich: How to Live Well With the Money You Have (Random House); Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich (Random House) and the recently published The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom, published by Zondervan, a HarperCollins company.  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.

For two years, Singletary was host of a national television program Singletary Says on TV One- owned Radio One and Comcast.  Following her second season, she hosted a personal finance special for TV One, Real Estate Realties: When the Boom Goes Bust. The 2008 special, focused on how the real estate crisis impacted the African-American community. Singletary was a regular personal finance contributor for National Public Radio’s afternoon program Day To Day. She is currently a contributor to NPR’s Talk of the Nation. She is frequently asked to appear on local and national radio programs including the Diane Rehm Show and The Yolanda Adams Morning Show. 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, Today, The Early Show, Nightline, 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.  Singletary has also written for the flagship O, The Oprah Magazine and for a brief stint, she was the personal finance columnist for O at Home magazine.

In her spare time, Singletary is the director of “Prosperity Partners Ministry,” a program she founded at her church, First Baptist Church of Glenarden, in which women and men, who handle their money well, volunteer to mentor others who are having financial challenges. Once a month, Singletary conducts a three-hour workshop for the ministry group on topics that range from tithing, to developing a budget to getting out of debt. Singletary also started a prison outreach program in Maryland to teach soon-to-be released male and female male inmates how to be better money managers. She and a group of volunteers regularly hold workshops in the correctional facilities. In 2010, Singletary was named Ministry Leader of the Year at First Baptist Church of Glenarden for your direction of Prosperity Partners and for her prison volunteer work.

She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, and The Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master's degree in business and management. Singletary and her husband reside in Maryland with their three children.

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