Beth Kobliner

Last updated
Beth Kobliner
Born (1965-01-18) January 18, 1965 (age 60)
Education Brown University (BA)
Spouse
​
(m. 1993)​
Children3

Beth Kobliner (born January 18, 1965) is an American personal finance commentator, journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties. [1] and Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not). [2] In 2010, she was appointed by President Obama to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, [3] [4] and was instrumental in developing the council's Money as You Grow initiative. [5] [6] [7] The site, MoneyAsYouGrow.org, has reached over one million visitors. [8] In February 2014, Kobliner was appointed by President Obama to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans. [9]

Contents

Kobliner is also the co-author, with her then nine-year-old son, of the 2013 children's book Jacob's Eye Patch, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. [10] [11]

Kobliner served as an advisor for Sesame Street 's financial education initiative, and appeared in an outreach video with the character Elmo. [12] [13] [14] She is a contributor to the Huffington Post [4] and Mint.com, [15] has participated regularly in public radio's national programs The Takeaway [16] and Marketplace , on which she discussed teens and money with her daughter in the "Beth and Becca" segment. [17] Kobliner has been a columnist at Glamour [18] and Redbook magazines, [19] and has contributed to publications including The New York Times, [4] [20] The Wall Street Journal , [21] O: The Oprah Magazine, [22] Parade , [23] and Reader's Digest . [24] She was a featured correspondent [25] and national outreach advisor [26] for the PBS special Your Life, Your Money.

Early life

Kobliner grew up in a Jewish family, [27] [28] the daughter of a New York high school principal and a high school chemistry teacher turned homemaker. [29] Kobliner is a graduate of Brown University, [30] where she studied literature. [29] Following college, she worked for Sylvia Porter, a pioneer in the personal finance field, [30] and later joined Money magazine as a staff writer. [29] Through the Shaw Family Endowment Fund, she and her husband have donated $1 million to Organizing for Action, $400,000 to the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, $400,000 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, $1 million to Yale University, $800,000 to the Horace Mann School, $1 million to Stanford University, and $1 million to Harvard University. [31]

Personal life

Kobliner married hedge fund manager and billionaire David E. Shaw in 1993. [32] [33] They are members of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. [34] They have two sons and a daughter, and live in New York City. [32] [35]

References

  1. ↑ Lieber, Ron (May 25, 2009). "Your Money; Financial Advice for Recent Graduates". New York Times.
  2. ↑ Byrnes, Brendan (28 May 2014). "An Interview With Personal Finance Expert Beth Kobliner". MotleyFool.com. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  3. ↑ The White House (October 12, 2010). "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". Press Release. Retrieved 2011-6-5.
  4. 1 2 3 King, Danny (October 14, 2010). "Kobliner, Ketchum Among Obama Appointees for 'Financial Literacy' Council". Daily Finance.
  5. ↑ "USNews.com; The Best Back-to-School Money Lessons for Kids".
  6. ↑ "MSN.com; What Kids Should Know About Money". Archived from the original on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2013-08-06.
  7. ↑ Rosen, Amy. "Forbes.com; Financial Literacy for All Young Americans".
  8. ↑ Eisenberg, Richard. "How To Manage Your Money Better After 50". Forbes.com. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". whitehouse.gov . 26 February 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014– via National Archives.
  10. ↑ Kobliner, Beth; Shaw, Jacob (24 September 2013). SimonandSchuster.com; Jacob's Eye Patch. ISBN   9781476737362.
  11. ↑ "SimonandSchuster.com".
  12. ↑ Hannon, Kerry (April 14, 2011). "Second Verse; From Sesame Street to Wall Street: Teaching Pre-Schoolers Money Skills". Forbes.
  13. ↑ "MarksJarvis, Gail (May 13, 2011). Elmo puts kids on right street to financial literacy". Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  14. ↑ ABCNews.com; Good Morning America (May 20, 2011). "Elmo, 'Sesame Street' and PNC Bank Team Up to Teach Kids Money Management".
  15. ↑ "Mint.com".
  16. ↑ "Thetakeaway.org; People. Retrieved 2011-6-6". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
  17. ↑ "DailyWorth.com".
  18. ↑ "PBS.org; Your Life, Your Money National Advisory Board". PBS . Archived from the original on August 8, 2014.
  19. ↑ Moses, Lucia (December 16, 2009). "Redbook Adds New Columnists, Including a Man". Adweek.
  20. ↑ Lieber, Ron (April 15, 2011). "Your Money; Too Young for Finance? Think Again". The New York Times.
  21. ↑ Kobliner, Beth (27 July 2014). "Start Early to Raise Money-Savvy Kids". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  22. ↑ "Oprah.com; Fall Shopping Guide".
  23. ↑ "U.S. Department of the Treasury; Resource Center".
  24. ↑ "Reader's Digest; Your Credit Score: The Magic Number Explained".
  25. ↑ PBS.org; Types of Insurance-Interview Highlights from Your Life, Your Money. Retrieved 2011-6-6.
  26. ↑ PBS.org; Your Life, Your Money National Advisory Board. Retrieved 2011-6-6.
  27. ↑ Sher, Cindy (June 22, 2009). "'Get a Financial Life' - 2009 guide offers tips to getting young people on financial track in tough economic times". Oy Chicago. Archived from the original on February 21, 2018 – via Wayback Machine.
  28. ↑ Josephs, Susan (Winter 2011). "Dollars & Sense - In today's anxious financial climate, these savvy women are helping educate and empower women to take control of their money". Jewish Women Magazine. Archived from the original on January 24, 2015 – via Wayback Machine.
  29. 1 2 3 Iwata, Edward (May 1, 1996). "Wake-up call for Xers". San Francisco Chronicle.
  30. 1 2 The Brown University News Bureau (May 16, 1996). "1996 Forums to feature Sandra Day O'Connor, Mary Chapin Carpenter". Press Release. Retrieved 2011-6-6.
  31. ↑ Cohen, Rick (June 20, 2014). "Philanthropically Speaking, Who are the Donors to Organizing for Action?". Nonprofit Quarterly.
  32. 1 2 Kofman, Ava; Golden, Daniel (September 28, 2019). "The Hedge Fund Billionaire's Guide to Buying Your Kids a Better Shot at Not Just One Elite College, but Lots of Them". ProPublica.
  33. ↑ The Real Deal: "Hedge funder spends $75M on Westchester manse" August 01, 2012
  34. ↑ "Stephen Wise Free Synagogue > Tikkun Olam - Center for Values and Community Service". Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  35. ↑ "Forbes profile: David Shaw". Forbes. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.