Naomi Schaefer Riley
Naomi Schaefer Riley (born ca. 1977) is an American conservative commentator and author. Riley's 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. 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, which resulted in a social media backlash, kicked off by an essay by Tressie McMillan Cottom and a petition demanding her firing, which contained roughly 6,500 names. Personal life. She graduated from Harvard College in 1998, magna cum laude. She and her husband (since 2004), Jason Riley, have three children.