Rachel Sklar
Rachel Sklar is a Canadian lawyer, CNN contributor, and media blogger.
Early years
Sklar was born to a Jewish family 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
Sklar became a full-time freelance journalist on a wide array of topics. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Glamour, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune, Wallpaper, New York Post, and Village Voice. Her numerous publications in Canada include the self-published book A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor, which she co-authored with the dentist Howard Rocket about his stroke and recovery.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 also made an appearance on the hit tv show, called "Impractical Jokers".
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."