Dori Zinn

Immediate repayment: With this repayment option, loan principal and interest payments become due shortly after funds are disbursed.
Interest-only repayment: This repayment arrangement allows students to make payments only on their loan's interest while they are enrolled in school, with at least half-time enrollment typically required.
Deferred repayment: Students will not owe payments until they are either no longer enrolled in school at-least half-time or have graduated and their grace period, which usually lasts about six months, has passed. After that point, payments of principal and interest will become due.

10+ years in personal finance.
Work has appeared on MSN, TIME Stamped, Yahoo Finance, and CBS News.

Bio and experience

Dori Zinn has been an expert in personal finance for more than 10 years, specializing in credit and debt management, budgeting, home equity loans, and student and personal loans.

Dori has worked as a communications assistant and contributing editor at the Association for Retail Environments, a food blogger at New Times Broward, an associate editor at Bundoo, and personal finance writer at Student Loan Hero. She is currently president at Blossomers Media, where she's a freelance financial contributor.

Her writing has been seen on MSN, Salon, TIME Stamped, AOL, Yahoo Finance, Investigate TV, AP Buyline, CBS News, CNN, Business Insider, Newsweek, Wirecutter, Quartz, Bankrate, MarketWatch, Investopedia, USA Today, Buy Side WSJ, The Balance, CNET, Credit Karma, Daily Republic, and Money Talks News.

She was also the president of the Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, which won the national organization's “Chapter of the Year” award two years in a row.