About Kathryn Finney
About Kathryn Finney
Kathryn Finney is the founder of The Budget Fashionista.com and CEO of Simply Good Media and Consulting, an information network focused on giving readers tools to give great lives for less.
Kathryn has been profiled in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise, Investor’s Business Daily, Instyle, People Style Watch, Essence Magazine, Redbook Magazine, Sister 2 Sister, and over 500 other print publications. She’s also a frequent contributor to television shows such as NBC’s TODAY Show, CNN Headline News, E! News, Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC), CNBC, Business News Newtork, and ABC’s Good Morning America and has served as a spokesperson for top brands including Febreze, Paypal, Rightfit, Marshalls/TJ Maxx and Sears.
As a top keynote speaker, Kathryn gives over 30 presentations per year, on topics such as entrepreneurship, new media and women, and challenges facing women leaders. She’s been a keynote speaker at top conferences such as SXSW Interactive, Black Enterprise Small Business Conference, Blogher Business, Women Funding Network, and Professional Business Women’s Conference.
An honors graduate of Yale University and Rutgers University, Kathryn continues to receive numerous honors for her work, including selection as one of America’s Smartest Shoppers (Style Network), an Essence Magazine “Woman of Style”, one of Silicon Alley’s Top 100 People in Technology, and listed as a “favorite” blog by publications as diverse as Real Simple Magazine, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Women’s Wear Daily.
As one of the first lifestyle bloggers, Kathryn’s frank advice and Midwestern charm turned a small blog about looking fabulous on a budget into the #1 independent fashion blog on the Internet, with over 2 million impressions per month and famously loyal 26,000 site members.
The release of her best-selling book, How to Be a Budget Fashionista- The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous For Less (Random House/Ballantine Books) made her the first fashion blogger to receive a book deal from a major publishing house. The book is currently in its 6th printing.
Kathryn is a strong supporter of projects that improves the lives of women and projects that increase access to technology in African and African-American communities . She’s a founder and trustee of the Robert Finney Technology Fund, a fund created in honor of her late father, Robert, who was an engineer at Microsoft and EMC2. The fund provides scholarships to African-American high school and college students pursuing studies in technology related fields.
Kathryn lives in New York City, with her husband and 28 35 37 pairs of shoes.
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Kathryn may be reached at kathryn.finney-at-simplygoodmedia.com
Kathryn’s Short Bio (100 words)
Kathryn Finney is the founder of TheBudgetFashionista.com and CEO of Simply Good Media/Consulting, an information network focused on giving readers tools to give great lives for less. She’s the author of “How to Be a Budget Fashionista” (Ballantine Books) and is a highly sought after public speaker at top conferences such as Blogher, SXSW, O’Reily’s Web 2.0, and the Professional Women’s Business Conference. Kathryn Finney and TBF have been featured in every major press outlet, including numerous features and profiles in the New York Times, People, Good Morning America, TODAY Show, and Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Yale University and Rutgers University.