Kara Perez signs with d'Arbonne Literary!

I'm so proud to reveal that personal finance influencer and environmental sustainability advocate Kara Perez has signed on with d'Arbonne Literary!

Kara Perez is an Austin-based financial entrepreneur and first generation American. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Kara took her extreme student loan payoff journey and turned it into a career. After graduating in 2011 with a degree in English, no job, and over $25,000 in debt, Kara struggled as a low-income waitress (and she wasn’t alone among millennials).

In 2013, Kara earned $16,183.51. In 2014, Kara earned $18,423. During that time, Kara paid off $30,000 in student loans and interest on a salary of less than $26,000, the final $18,000 in just ten months.

While traveling for a tournament in Florida with her freshman-year lacrosse team, she was horrified to find that their housing didn’t recycle. Instead of simply throwing the recycling away, Kara assigned each house a recycling captain, and at the end of the trip, she rinsed all the Gatorade and water bottles, packed them into her lacrosse stick bag, and flew them back to their college in Connecticut so she could recycle them. With that, a climate activist was born.

While she was broke, underemployed, and saddled with student loan debt, she realized that her lack of financial education was crippling her adulthood. But everywhere she looked, it seemed like only rich, white couples were giving financial advice. Being a single woman in her mid-twenties and working five part-time jobs, Kara decided to start her company as a place where other people who didn’t fit into the financial mainstream could come to learn about and change their financial reality. After becoming debt-free in June, 2015, Kara created Bravely Go to help other women take control of their financial lives.

Now entirely and successfully self-employed, Kara is a respected name in the feminist and sustainable personal finance community known for speaking truth to power and determinedly advocating for a better financial future for others.

I will be representing Kara as she shops around her first book, Green Money (working title), all about the intersection of feminism, environmentalism, and finance.