19 Facts About Jane Buckingham

Jane Ruth Buckingham is an American author and businesswoman who founded the consumer insights firm Trendera.

Jane Buckingham is known for writing "The Modern Girl's Guide to Life" book series, which spawned the television series of the same name.

Jane Buckingham was convicted in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.

At the age of 16, Buckingham wrote the book Teens Speak Out, a report from teens on their most intimate thoughts, feelings and hopes for the future.

In 2003, Jane Buckingham sold Youth Intelligence to the Los Angeles based talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency.

Jane Buckingham wrote The Modern Girls Guide to Life, The Modern Girl's Guide to Motherhood and The Modern Girls Guide to Sticky Situations.

Jane Buckingham has addressed subjects including parenting tips in the series, and predictions about the future for businesses in What's Next.

Jane Buckingham left the Intelligence Group in 2009 to start Trendera, a trend forecasting, consulting, research, and multi media company.

Jane Buckingham consults companies and individuals to help them reach out to diverse age groups.

Jane Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, 60 Minutes, and Good Morning America.

Jane Buckingham has appeared on numerous programs including, The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The View.

Additionally, Jane Buckingham has been a keynote speaker and panelist at events such as ASME, SIMA, and BlogHer.

Jane Buckingham is currently a contributing editor at Glamour, and The Huffington Post, and makes regular appearances on Good Morning America and The View.

Jane Buckingham was arrested on March 12,2019, for participation in a college admissions bribery scandal.

Jane Buckingham, acting without her son's knowledge or consent, donated $50,000 to the college counseling firm Key Worldwide Foundation to arrange for a proctor to take the ACT on her son's behalf.

Jane Buckingham provided the proctor with a sample of her son's writing to emulate and had her son take a practice ACT in order to have him believe he had actually taken the test.

However, the US Attorney's Office sought a sentence of six months in prison, saying Jane Buckingham was "more deeply engaged in the mechanics of the fraud than many of the other parents" in the case.

Jane and Marcus Buckingham married in 1996 and divorced in 2017.

In 2019, Jane Buckingham hosted in her home, and later co-hosted, California fundraisers for US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's 2020 exploratory Presidential campaign, and has been a "major donor" to various Democratic political candidates.