Claire Hoffman is a journalist and author. She writes about culture, religion, celebrity and business for national publications, including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Portfolio and the Los Angeles Times. She was also a freelance reporter for the New York Times.
Claire graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia and a master's degree in religious studies from the University of Chicago. She is on the board of her family foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation, and of the Columbia Journalism School.