Sheryl Nance-Nash

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Location
Houston
School
San Francisco State University
Expertise
Caribbean destinations, Wellness & Spas, History Tourism
  • Sheryl has traveled to more than 20 Caribbean countries and has a retirement home in Jamaica.
  • She has experienced spas all over the world.
  • Sheryl goes to museums in nearly every city she travels, visiting the smallest to world-renowned institutions.

Experience

Sheryl Nance-Nash is a freelance writer specializing in travel, personal finance, and business. She loves showing people how to manage their finances and writing about the intersection of travel, history, wellness, art, and culture. Travel feeds her adventurous spirit, whether it's jumping off a cliff into a cenote in Mexico, soaring in a hot air balloon in the Arizona desert, or parasailing in Maui. For nearly a decade, her travel features have appeared on CNTraveler.com, Afar, TravelandLeisure.com, Fodor's, Lonely Planet, The Daily Beast, Global Traveler Magazine, Lonely Planet, and The Knot, among others. She started her journalism career in legal journalism at the National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, and California Law Business. She switched to personal finance and worked at Money and Your Company Magazines before going freelance. Her business/personal finance articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal's Buy Side, Business Insider, Newsday, and others.

Education

Sheryl has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from San Francisco State University.

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