Xiomara Martinez-White

Xiomara Martinez-White has worked as a staff editor at LendingTree since April 2018, where she copy edits and fact checks dozens of articles across multiple LendingTree-owned domains, including MagnifyMoney, Student Loan Hero and ValuePenguin.

Experience

Xiomara Martinez-White has nearly two decades of experience in journalism covering a multitude of subjects, beginning as a music writer as a college student in a column she had for all four years.

She held internships at InTouch Weekly and Metro before attending graduate school. As a graduate student, she also interned at Marie Claire, People.com, The Frisky and the International Herald Tribune, where she got her first true experience working in copy editing, as an assistant for the fashion department and its famed editor, Suzy Menkes.

She further honed her copy editing skills at The Week, and edited the book Raising A Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped Us Come Together As A Family.

Prior to LendingTree, Martinez-White worked for BDG Media and its flagship publication Bustle.

Education

Xiomara Martinez-White earned a B.A. in English Language & Literature at Smith College. She obtained an M.A. at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, concentrating in Arts and Cultural Journalism. She has also attended the University of Cape Town and CELSA Paris, the journalism and communications school of Sorbonne Université, as a visiting student.