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Emma Johnson (born October 23, 1976) is an American journalist, blogger, radio host, and media personality. She is most famous for her blog Wealthy Single Mommy.
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Early life
Johnson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and grew up in Sycamore, Illinois. She was raised by a single mom and has two younger brothers. She went to the local public schools as well as studying abroad in Luneville for her junior year in high school. She graduated from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1998 with a degree in print journalism and studied at Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador for the 1996-97 school year, and also worked at the student newspaper, The Daily Illini.
Career
After graduating from college Johnson held an internship at CNN in Atlanta. From there she worked as a general news reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times in Valdosta, Georgia. She moved to New York City in 2003 where she was hired at the Associated Press's then-new financial wire.
Blogger
As a blogger of Wealthy Single Mommy, Johnson writes about her life as a professional, single parent in New York City, and speaks to issues faced by professional women. She is known for taking a strong stand that women should continue their careers and strive for financial independence after having children, as well as term marriage contracts as an answer to high divorce rates. Since launching in August, 2012, the blog gained an international following and media attention and is often criticized for being unrealistic in her dating, and judgmental of other women's choices, including by bloggers at The Chicago Tribune,.
Wealthy Single Mommy has been cited by major media outlets including being named to The New York Times Motherlode's blogroll. Johnson and Wealthy Single Mommy have been quoted as an expert on NBC TODAY's blog, Headline News, HuffingtonPost Live, Woman's Day, Ryan Seacrest Radio, NPR, Business Insider, Fox News, The Houston Chronicle, CBS Radio, NBC Nightly News and Yahoo! Personal Finance.
Other works
Johnson is also a well-known business and personal finance journalist. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Glamour, Forbes, Men's Health, Woman's Day, Parenting, WIRED, WORTH and others. She is currently contributing editor at SUCCESS magazine, DailyWorth, RetailMeNot and The Huffington Post. "The Emma Johnson Show" is syndicated nationwide on AM radio. This hour-long call-in talk show explores issues of interest to women today: parenting, work, career, dating sex and feminism. Guests include bestselling authors and national media personalities including Laura Vanderkam, Katrina Alcorn, Farnoosh Torabi and Miki Agrawal.
Personal life
Johnson lives in New York City with her two young children. She married in 2005 and divorced in 2009. She is single.