a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at The Free Press.  She is the author of the New York Times bestseller and international bestseller Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up (2024), which was named a “Best Book” of 2024 by NPR.

Her previous national bestseller, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (2020), was named a “Best Book” by the Economist and the Times (of London). Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

In 2021, Shrier received the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism.

She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Circuit.

Co-founder of Moms for Liberty. wife and mom of four school-aged children. In 2016 she stepped up to serve for 4 years on the School District of Indian River County, FL School Board. She believes that kids in public school deserve innovation and parents have the right to know the union interference and government bureaucracy that is keeping that innovation from happening in their children’s district.  Since then she has been featured on multiple TV shows, podcasts, and events, one of the most notable being her takedown of Joy Reid over pornographic library books on MSNBC.