Charles A. Riley II, PhD, Director of Communications

Prof. Riley is a journalist and author who has covered regulatory and political issues for business publications, including Fortune magazine. An associate professor of journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, he is also the co-founder of WeMedia (www.wemedia.com), the first multimedia company devoted to people with disabilities, and the former editor-in-chief of WE magazine, its national bimonthly magazine, for which he has written two dozen cover stories. A former reporter covering finance, politics and science for Fortune magazine, former senior editor and business analyst for Art & Auction magazine, and frequent contributor to Art & Antiques as well as Antique Monthly magazines, Dr. Riley has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox News as a commentator on world trade, the regulation of business, small business and politics, disability law, corporate diversity, the art market and trade issues involving mainland China. He has been a frequent guest at think tanks including the Salzburg Seminar, Perception International and the Presidential Renaissance Weekends as well as the White House Conference on Small Business. He has won major awards for his coverage of disability from Easter Seals, United Cerebral Palsy, the National Recovery Alliance and other organizations. He has also acted as advisor on both small business and accessibility issues to corporations such as IBM, AT&T and Microsoft, as well as to the White House and the office of the mayor in New York City. He was honored in 1999 as one of the City's leading figures in the area of supporting accessibility and the rights of people with disabilities. He is the author of several books on business, policy and the arts, including Small Business, Big Politics (Petersen's), High-Access Home (Rizzoli), The Arts and the World Economy, Tools of Historic Preservation, Color Codes, The Saints of Modern Art, and the new Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination, (all from University Press of New England, www.dartmouth.edu.acad-inst/upne) as well as two monographs from Abrams, The Art of Peter Max and Ben Schonzeit: Paintings. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Graduate Center of CUNY.