Constance Sommer

Highlights

• Professional journalist
• Worked as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press, among others
• Writing published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vogue, among others.
• Writing about personal finance for CreditCards.com since 2016

Experience

Constance Sommer is a professional journalist who started her career in newspapers, working as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a little weekly newspaper called The Acorn. More recently, as a freelance writer, her work has appeared in CreditCards.com, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Vogue, among others.

Favorite content

• CreditCards.com – How to buy a used car
• CreditCards.com – Guide to Brex: The card for startups
• CreditCards.com – Two? Seven? Twenty? How many credit cards should I have?
• The New York Times – Parents of College Students Worry, Should They Stay or Go?
• The Washington Post – Summer ‘camp’ with the neighborhood teens. Is it worth the risk?
• Los Angeles Times – Shin splints, a nagging injury that doesn’t have to sideline exercise
• To Her Credit – How coronavirus is changing the future of child care
• Vogue – I’m Thrilled My Husband Is Getting the Vaccine—I’m Also Very Jealous