Beth Kobliner

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Beth Kobliner
Born (1965-01-18) January 18, 1965 (age 58)
Education Brown University (BA)
Spouse David E. Shaw
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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]

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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 and education

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 is married to hedge fund manager and billionaire David E. Shaw. [32] They are members of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. [33] They have three children, and live in New York City. [34]

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