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Kelli Space

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Kelli Space

Kelli Space is a 2009 graduate of Northeastern University and the creator of the website twohundredthou.com. She is an advocate for student loan reform and has recently partnered with EduLender, a startup that compares student loan rates and gives financial aid advice. Kelli lives in New Jersey with her parents and is working as an office manager of an Internet company in New York City, with the goal of ridding herself of her student loan debt.

Articles by Kelli Space


My Very Costly College Education

Jan 4, 2011 · Kelli Space · No Comments on My Very Costly College Education

A graduate laments piling up $200,000 in student debt in exchange for a sociology degree and an “assumed rite of passage.”

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