Hi there! My name is Toni and I live in South Florida….

I write news you won’t find anywhere else. My articles are (almost) all exclusives and help contribute to the national conversation on the politicization of academia and free speech concerns for faculty and students alike.

Over the past 9 years, I’ve written over 3,300 exclusive articles spanning dozens of news outlets including USA TODAY, Quillette, PJ Media, the NY Daily News, The Columbia Spectator, The Post Millennial, Legal Insurrection, The Daily Caller and of course, at this Substack.

My writings have been cited in thousands of articles, dozens of academic books, and been debated quite often on FOX News and OANN. They have also been used to inform public policy, as many think-tanks (such as PEN America, SpeechFirst, AEI, the Rutgers Law Review and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, also known as FIRE) have cited my reporting in their letters to the public and to courts.

I started my career by writing for Quillette Magazine when I was an undergraduate student at Barnard College and was shocked by the campus politics coming from an agnostic, apolitical background. Later, I became a Columnist for The Columbia Spectator, the school newspaper.

The year I graduated college, I was one of 7 Columbia students who were featured by the Columbia school magazine, The Blue and White, for being a “reckoning force” on campus for my prolific journalism on campus issues.

During the Obama administration, I was invited by the Department of Education to serve on a virtual panel where I was noted as an expert in the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act. Later, under the Trump administration, I was profiled by the Department of Education during School Choice Week as I started college full-time by age 14.

In June of 2025, I finished my studies and converted to Judaism at Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County in Delray Beach, FL. My essay in the Times of Israel explains more about what led me to Judaism.

I’m also a Senior Editor at Liberty Affair, a Polish-American news outlet.

Write to me: tonimaeairaksinen@gmail.com