Matt Lane is a public sector lawyer and longtime member of the personal finance community. He blogged about money, productivity, and happiness from 2015-2020 before pivoting entirely to social media, at which point he won a Plutus Award for his Bad Money Takes twitter brackets. Matt mixes money, law, and politics, advocating for marginalized communities and working to advance the reality that structural and systemic changes are needed to make financial success accessible to all. He lives in Arlington with his wife and two young kids.