Lillian Karabaic
Lillian Karabaic is the host of OPB's "Weekend Edition" and a financial reporter. From 2016 to 2023, she hosted the financial radio show and podcast "Oh My Dollar!" She was previous co-host of the BikePortland.org podcast from 2011 - 2016, morning radio host at KRRC and KXRY (XRAY.FM), and financial advice columnist at Slate.com. She helped co-found StreamPDX, a podcasting studio in a 1960s airstream.
Along the way, she’s worked as a vegetarian cook at a commune in rural Oregon, a bicycle instructor, a live-in social worker with young mothers leaving incarceration, a transit map maker, and a financial advisor. She’s lived in Karnataka, India, and Berlin, Germany. Her book, "A Cat’s Guide to Money," is an illustrated guide to personal finance. She is currently writing a non-fiction graphic novel about the American health care system.
Lillian graduated from Reed College with a degree in economics. She has traveled to 48 countries by train and is always planning another trip to get more vegan donuts.
Latest Stories
‘Wildfire Days’ is about fighting fire — in the wilderness and in life
Kelly Ramsey’s new memoir, "Wildfire Days," follows her rookie seasons as a wildland firefighter on an elite hotshot crew in the Pacific Northwest. Her story is one of physical endurance, belonging, and personal reckoning, all set against the backdrop of some of the West’s biggest wildfires.
‘At Work With’ a volunteer bike bus captain who makes the ride to school joyful and safe for Portland kids
Lauren McCune is one of the many parent volunteers who power Portland's "bike buses," which are convoys of school kids pedaling to school together.
Billie McBride-O’Neel is skating out of the shadows for trans youth
The Astoria, Oregon, resident transitioned in 1985 after a career as a professional figure skater. She stayed in the closet for four decades, until trans youth became increasingly threatened.
Training, tenacity and thrift help former Oregon foster youth launch sewing business
Nicky Young has been in foster care on and off since age 5. While aging out of the care system, she went through a financial literacy program at Youth Villages — and now uses her financial literacy skills to turn her side hustle into a thriving business, Your Grandma Nicky.
New summer bus connects Beaverton to Oregon Coast on weekends
A new seasonal bus service begins this weekend from Beaverton to the Oregon Coast.
Oregon’s public transit could face cuts as lawmakers debate funding priorities
A group of legislators wants to gradually raise the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund payroll tax — or STIF — to keep buses running and expand service across the state. Another group of legislators wants to eliminate the transit funding entirely. Rural transit operators say they need it.
‘At Work With’ an air traffic controller — for birds — at the Portland airport
We go to work with Nick Atwell, one of the wildlife biologist who work at the Portland International Airport. Their job? Prevent bird strike.
‘The Evergreen’: ‘At Work With’ a cheesemaker, a garbage collector and an airport wildlife biologist
For our latest “At Work With” episode, we bring you along as we visit a queseria where Mexican cheese is made, hit the streets at dawn with a garbage collector and meet a biologist whose job it is to protect birds at the airport.
Lloyd Center mall reimagined in films featured in Portland Panorama festival
"Chispa" and "Mall Town," both featured in the festival running from April 10–20, use the Lloyd Center shopping mall as their backdrop, but with very different goals.
High tariffs could be ‘catastrophic’ for footwear and apparel companies like those in Oregon
The stock price of Beaverton-based Nike, dropped sharply in response to the news that tariffs against Vietnam would rise 46%. Vietnam produces half of Nike footwear.
