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Nationality
  
Canada

Website
  
The Huffington Post


Name
  
Rachel Sklar

Role
  
Lawyer

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Born
  
December 8, 1972 (age 51) (
1972-12-08
)
Toronto, Ontario

Alma mater
  
The University of Western Ontario University of Toronto

Occupation
  
Attorney, blogger, author

Residence
  
New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
Jew-Ish: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and All the Ish In Between

Education
  
University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto

Profiles

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Rachel Sklar (born December 8, 1972) is a Canadian lawyer, CNN contributor, and media blogger.

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Early years

Sklar was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students' Council, as well as a regular contributor to the campus newspaper, The Gazette. She was also an active member of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society. She graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she was valedictorian.

Career

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Sklar became a full-time freelance writer on a wide array of topics. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Glamour, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune, Wallpaper*, The New York Post, and The Village Voice. Her numerous publications in Canada include the self-published book A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (Toronto: 1998, Parnassus Books), which she co-authored with the dentist Howard Rocket (the father of a childhood friend) about his stroke and recovery.

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Sklar was, until 7 November 2008, the Media & Special Projects Editor for the Huffington Post. She wrote and edited the site's Eat The Press page. She previously wrote and edited FishbowlNY, a New York-based media industry blog. Sklar is a guest panelist on Fox News Watch, a current events debate program on the Fox News Channel, and has made appearances on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, which is also a Fox News program.

She is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity, for HarperCollins.

In January 2009, she left the Huffington Post to join The Daily Beast. She has worked for Dan Abrams, at Abrams Research and as Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.

She is the founder of two advocacy sites: Change The Ratio, which promotes the careers of women in new media and tech; and Charitini.com, which promotes social micro-giving. In 2013, Sklar soft launched tech start-up, The Li.st, that serves as "a platform for awesome women."

Recognition

In 2010, she was listed by The Wall in "Social media movers and shakers: The ones to watch in 2011" along with Ben Parr and Murray Newlands, and listed in 2011 Silicon Alley (NYC) 100 List by Business Insider for Change the Ratio. In 2012, Sklar was listed as one of Datamation's list of "10 Women in Tech Who Give Back." In 2015 she and her daughter Ruby (born that year) were named as part of The Forward 50.

References

Rachel Sklar Wikipedia