Naomi Schaefer Riley

Naomi Schaefer Riley Biography

Naomi Schaefer Riley is an American journalist, syndicated columnist, lecturer, non-fiction writer, editor, and blogger, for, among other news outlets, The New York Post.

Riley's writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, and The Washington Post, among others. She is also a lecturer at colleges and universities. At The Wall Street Journal, she covered religion, higher education and philanthropy for the editorial page. Prior to this assignment, she founded the magazine In Character.

Riley was a blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education until she was fired in 2012 after writing a blog arguing for the elimination of Black Studies as university departments, which resulted in a social media backlash, and a petition demanding her firing, which contained roughly 6,500 names.

Personal life

She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. She and her husband (since 2004), Jason Riley, a journalist, author and pundit, have three children.

Writing

God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America, Ivan R. Dee (2006); ISBN 978-1566636988
The Faculty Lounges "? And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For, Ivan R. Dee (2011); ISBN 978-1566638869
Acculturated: 23 Savvy Writers Find Hidden Virtue in Reality TV, Chic Lit, Video Games, and Other Pillars of Pop Culture (co-editor), Templeton Press (2012); ISBN 978-1599474045
'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America, Oxford University Press (2013); ISBN 978-0199873746
Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2014); ISBN 978-1442226098
Got Religion?: How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back, Templeton Press (2014); ISBN 978-1599473918
The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians, Encounter Books (2016); ISBN 978-1594038532

Fellowships/awards

Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Journalism Fellowship
2006 American Academy of Religion's Newswriting Contest for Opinion Writing (winner)

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