Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the co-founder of Change The Ratio and TheLi.st, which increase visibility and opportunity for women in tech and new media. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture and technology, she was a founding editor at Mediaite and the Huffington Post. Sklar is a TechStars mentor and an advisor to several startups, including Vox Media, Siftee, Lover.ly, and more. She was named to the Silicon Alley 100 in 2009, 2010 and 2011, FastCompany’s “League of Extraordinary Women” and has earned numerous honors and awards for her writing. Sklar graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she was valedictorian.