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]

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 OprahMagazine,^[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.

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]

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]

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