Tiffany Shlain

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of the Webby Awards. She has received over 80 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including selection for the Albert Einstein Foundation’s initiative Genius: 100 Visions for the Future, being on NPR’s list of Best Commencement Speeches, and being named by Newsweek as “one of the women shaping the 21st century.” She is the recipient for the 2021 Create the Future Award from the Maui Film Festival. The Museum ofModern Art in New York premiered her live one-woman “Spoken Cinema” show, DearHuman, right before the pandemic. 

Tiffany’s book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week was published by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books and has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Washington Post. 24/6 received the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding BookAward, a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and was included on bestseller lists including Best Business Books, Top Tech Books, and the LibraryJournal national bestseller list and Best High-Tech Audio Books. 24/6 explores her family’s decade-long transformative practice of turning off screens one day each week for what they call their Technology Shabbat; the past, present, and future of technology; and the effects our 24/7 world has on individuals, our relationships, and our society.