Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz (born September 15, 1980) is an American writer living in Brooklyn, New York City. She has been an education correspondent for NPR, a former staff writer for ''Fast Company'' magazine, and columnist for Tribune Media Services, and the author of several books. She is currently a senior advisor at the Aspen Institute. During 2005, she wrote a column for ''The Village Voice'' called "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young". Her first book, ''Generation Debt'', was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006. Her writing has also appeared in ''New York Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Salon'', ''Slate'', ''The Nation'', ''The Forward'' newspaper, and more.

In 2009, Kamenetz wrote a column called "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education" and, in 2010, a book on the subject entitled ''DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education''. In 2010, she was named a Game Changer in Education by the ''Huffington Post''.

As a Fellow at the New America Foundation, Kamenetz wrote a book, ''The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be'', which was released in January 2015.

She was featured in the documentaries ''[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/generationnext/ Generation Next]'' (2006), ''Default: The Student'' ''Loan Documentary'' (2011), both shown on PBS, and ''Ivory Tower'', which premiered at Sundance in 2014 and was shown on CNN.

Her book, ''The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life'' was published by PublicAffairs, and imprint of Hachette, in January 2018. It argues that families should manage screen time with rules similar to Michael Pollan’s well-known “food rules”: "Enjoy Screens. Not too much. Mostly with others."

She is the daughter of Rodger Kamenetz, author of ''The Jew in the Lotus'' and other books on spirituality, and Moira Crone, fiction writer and author of ''Dream State'' and ''A Period of Confinement''. Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School and Yale College in 2002. Provided by Wikipedia