 Sam Ali, an award-winning business writer, has spent the past nine years at The Star-Ledger writing about banking, personal finance and real estate. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and began her reporting career more than 20 years ago, working for daily newspapers, all of them in New Jersey. Over the years, she has won state and national awards for her work, including the American University School of Communication Journalism Award for Excellence in Personal Finance reporting and the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for Business and Economic Writing. |
Mark DiIonno is a columnist at The Star-Ledger, the author of three books and father of six children.