Naomi Schaefer Riley

Naomi Schaefer Riley
Born
Naomi Schaefer

1976 or 1977 (age 47–48)
Alma materHarvard College
Occupation(s)Lecturer, non-fiction writer, editor, and blogger
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Children3
Websitenaomiriley.com

Naomi Schaefer Riley (née Schaefer; born c. 1977)[1] is an American conservative[2] commentator and author.[3] Her 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. At The Wall Street Journal, she covered religion, higher education, and philanthropy for the editorial page.[4] 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 at university departments,[5] which resulted in a social media backlash, kicked off by an essay by Tressie McMillan Cottom[6][7] and a petition demanding her firing, which contained roughly 6,500 names.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT_wedding was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Q&A with Naomi Schaefer Riley | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  3. ^ Naomi Schaefer Riley official website; accessed April 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Profile, wsj.com; accessed February 24, 2015.
  5. ^ Riley, Naomi Schaefer (April 30, 2012). "The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations". Brainstorm – Blogs. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  6. ^ McMillan Cottom, Tressie (May 2, 2012). "The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject". TressieMc.com. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  7. ^ McMillan Cottom, Tressie (2019). Thick And Other Essays. The New Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-62097-436-0.
  8. ^ "Liberal intolerance and the firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley", reason.com, May 16, 2012.