Rachel Sklar

Infobox Person
name = Rachel Sklar

---

image_size =
caption =
birth_name =
birth_date = Birth date and age|1972|12|8|mf=y
birth_place = Toronto
residence = New York
nationality = CAN
education = valedictorian at University of Toronto
alma_mater = University of Toronto
employer = various publishers, various publications
occupation = attorney, blogger, author
website = [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-sklar/ "The Huffington Post"]

Rachel Sklar (born December 8, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a lawyer and New York-based media blogger. 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. She was a corporate lawyer in Stockholm and New York, before switching careers to journalism.

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, including the 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 one of Sklar's close friends from childhood) about his stroke and recovery.

Sklar is the Media & Special Projects Editor for the "Huffington Post" and writes and edits the site's [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press 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 she 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.

External links

* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-sklar/ Profile and articles at the HuffingtonPost.com]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Sklar,%20Rachel Video conversations/interviews] on Bloggingheads.tv