Rivka Tadjer

Rivka Tadjer is an author who specializes in sociological implications of the techno-centric era and how it is changing behavior, devoting her subject matter to the issues of privacy, security, and identity.

Tadjer has written for newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, and many business papers, magazines and online outlets, such as: The Wall Street Journal Interactive, Business Week, Red Herring, and Working Woman, and CBS MarketWatch.

She has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Interactive, and for several tech and business magazines. She has written for TV news, made on-air appearances for Internet privacy issues.

In 2008, Tadjer accepted a post as an adjunct professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, “in hopes that someone will carry the torch of an independent press, before the Fourth Estate crumbles to ruins altogether.” She also serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Woodstock Day School, a progressive, independent private school.

Tadjer provides marketing and PR for select, high-tech companies and non-profit organizations in the arts and education.

Tadjer’s hometown is Washington, D.C. She attended Boston University and University of Maryland, majoring in philosophy and journalism. She is a first-generation American who lived in L.A. briefly, Manhattan for most of her adult life, and currently resides in Woodstock, NY.

Tadjer authored a non-fiction book in 1999 through Microsoft Press Smart Business Solutions for Financial Management (ISBN 0-7356-0682-X), to help entrepreneurs compete with large corporations.

Current Works

In 2008, Tadjer published her first novel, Two Weeks Under (ISBN 1434391884), a satire of human nature and the American preoccupation with weight loss.

Rivka Tadjer also keeps a regular [http://rivkatadjer.com blog] addressing social and women’s issues in America.