Olivia Peluso

Summary

• Olivia is a freelance writer for Investopedia, writing about topics including retirement planning, home buying, and paying for travel.
• She has over 1,500 published stories covering breaking news and young founders in social impact, energy, finance, and media. She is also an experienced editor, overseeing topics including entrepreneurship, personal finance, policy, and gender. 
• She formerly worked on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 franchise, and has also held positions in breaking news and renewable energy policy research.

Experience

Olivia Peluso currently works as a freelance writer in San Francisco, California. At Investopedia, Olivia is writing for the Special Projects team, focused on topics including retirement planning, young adult financial literacy, home buying, and paying for travel.

Her most recent full-time position was at Forbes, where she focused primarily on publishing the Forbes 30 Under 30 North America and Europe lists. In addition to helping oversee the entire Under 30 package, she led the section’s coverage of young founders in the social impact and energy industries and wrote a weekly newsletter. 

Olivia previously worked at a daily newsletter, where she reported regularly on the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy, policy, and breaking news. She also conducted research on renewable energy policy for a D.C.-based think tank. She is interested in covering the many ways our financial systems are shifting to accommodate clean energy, greener manufacturing processes, and innovations in our food systems. 

For fun, Olivia writes a weekly cooking newsletter. She loves to travel, and is often researching the best ways to help other twenty-somethings fund their way around the world. If she’s not at her desk or in the kitchen, she’s likely at the yoga studio or strolling around one of San Francisco’s beautiful parks.

Olivia was born and raised in New Jersey. She went out west for college and quickly fell in love with California while living on the Central Coast.

Education

Olivia Peluso has a bachelor’s degree in English from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, with minors in Media Arts and Sustainable Environments. She formerly worked for the school’s newspaper and held a weekly radio show.