Mary Lowengard

Mary Lowengard

Mary Lowengard is a freelance contributor to Fortune with more than three decades of experience as a journalist and editor. Mary's reporting on business and finance has appeared in The New York Times, Institutional Investor, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg News. She has lived in a co-op on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for 25 years.

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