As told to Tanya Benedicto Klich
Tanya Benedicto Klich is Senior Editor of Money & Career at Marie Claire, where she also oversees profiles of female founders, funders, executives, innovators and more. Tanya joined Marie Claire from Forbes, where she covered the business of beauty and style for the ForbesLife section. She also reported on the arts, auctions, luxury real estate, autos and more. She also worked as a former television reporter for NY1 News, where she was assigned to all things Queens, New York. She got her start in business news as a greenroom greeter and production assistant at Fox Business. Tanya is also a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she specialized in business & economic journalism, and is an adjunct professor at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three little sons.