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# Rikki Schlott 

Media Fellow

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Rikki Schlott is a Cato Media Fellow, author, and columnist at the *New York Post*. Her writing focuses on free speech, campus culture, and civil liberties, as well as generational issues, relationships, and evolving cultural norms. Her commentary has been featured in *Reason*, *Newsweek*, the *National Review*, among other publications, and she has appeared on the BBC, NewsNation, Fox News, and HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher*. She is the co-author of *The Canceling of the American Mind* with FIRE president and CEO Greg Lukianoff, and is currently working on a forthcoming nonfiction project. She lives in New York City.

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