Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar is the former Senior Contributing Editor for the Huffington Post and was the founding editor of the site’s Eat The Press page. She has contributed to the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Financial Times, Glamour, New York Magazine, and numerous publications in her homeland of Canada. She currently works with media consulting firm Abrams Research, and is the media columnist for online magazine The Daily Beast. She is a regular on HLN’s “Not Just Another Cable News Show” and is a frequent guest on networks including CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, with varying degrees of makeup.

Rachel recently launched the online charity site Charitini.com, which promotes micro-giving by allowing donors to substitute a small charitable donation for a “birthday drink” for a friend. She tried it for her birthday and woke up the next day with great karma and no hangover.

Rachel is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, Canada: 1998), a contributor to several anthologies and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity that is taking about as long to finish as the Jews wandered in the desert. She was recently named to Heeb magazine’s “Heeb 100,” New York Moves magazine’s “2008 Power Women,” Chatelaine magazine’s “Canadian Women to Watch” and the Globe & Mail’s “Ten Famous Canadians You’ve Never Heard Of,” which she thinks was a compliment. She is a proud graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was formerly a corporate lawyer in New York and Stockholm, where she never learned to like herring.