Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on child welfare and foster care issues. Specifically, her work analyzes the role of faith-based and community organizations in changing the foster care and adoption services landscape. She also studies how race, class and family structure affect foster care placement and services and the impact of the drug crisis on child welfare. She is concurrently a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.

Ms. Riley’s books include No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives (Bombardier Books, 2021) and Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems (Templeton Press, 2018). Her book, Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (Oxford University Press, 2013), was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She was interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN’s Q&A about her book The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For (Ivan R. Dee, 2011).