Across
- 3. Editor and writer of "Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo"
- 5. Model and organizer
- 8. Once a widow, again a widow
- 11. Organizes the wealthy to help the poor
- 12. Writer of "Sharks in the Banya"
- 17. Writer who admires her mother's hardship and expression of love
- 18. Nonbinary-identifying cat-lover
- 19. TV writer and author
- 24. Experienced difficulty with college grants
- 27. Writer of "Aria"
- 28. Adopted a baby girl from China and discovered the hardships of being a single mother
- 29. Money memoir writer
- 30. Writes of crowd-funding and what it does
Down
- 1. Recipient of 2006 O. Henry Prize
- 2. Former public school teacher and now a stay-at-home mom
- 4. Credit card debt? Yes.
- 6. Author of "Royalties"
- 7. Financially independent and mentally healthier
- 9. A person identifying as female
- 10. Admires her grandmother, Lucy Catron
- 13. Advocate for safe childbirth and motherhood
- 14. Founder of Loveland Foundation
- 15. Has a blog called "Kale & Caramel"
- 16. First African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 20. Tolled by bad air quality, chemical fumes, and hospital bills
- 21. Believes in the utilization of appearance to overcome poverty bias
- 22. After parents' divorce, she learned how to heal
- 23. ________ Maree Brown
- 25. Former Silicon Valley businesswoman
- 26. Author of "Having Plenty"