Jared Hughes

Jared Hughes is an independent personal finance writer and Credible’s student loan editor. Hughes got his start editing online at an internship for Fairy Tale Review, a literary journal analyzing fairy tales. From there, Hughes worked for a destination marketing agency where he specialized in editing and writing stories meant to inspire people to visit their favorite destinations in the US.

Hughes also briefly tried his hand at freelance writing, creating website content for local businesses in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Before joining Credible, Hughes was a content editor for Intuit, editing learning courses created for the QuickBooks sales team.

Hughes earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing with a minor in English from the University of Arizona.