Rachel Sklar (born December 8, 1972) is a

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contributor, and media blogger.

Early years

Sklar was born to a

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, Canada. She is a graduate of

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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

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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 ''

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'', and ''

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''. 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. Sklar was, until 7 November 2008, the Media & Special Projects Editor for the ''

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''. 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

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program on the

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, and has made appearances on ''

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'', which is also a Fox News program. In January 2009, she left the Huffington Post to join ''

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''. She has worked for

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, at Abrams Research and as Editor-at-Large for

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. 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

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and Murray Newlands, and listed in 2011 Silicon Alley (NYC) 100 List by

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for Change the Ratio. In 2012, Sklar was listed as one of

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'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 ''

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'' 50.

References

External links

Profile and articles at the HuffingtonPost.com

Video debates featuring Sklar
on

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