Neylan McBaine

Neylan McBaine (born 1977)^[6] is an American writer, especially on topics related to women in Mormonism. She is a blogger and columnist at Patheos.com and PowerofMoms.com, and has been published in Newsweek, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah, Meridian Magazine and BustedHalo.com.^[7] The author of How to Be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman (2008) and Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact (2014), and she is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Mormon Women Project.^[8][9] McBaine also works professionally as a marketing and branding specialist.^[4]

Biography

McBaine was born and raised in New York City, where she graduated from the Chapin School^[1] and studied piano at the Juilliard School. She then graduated from Yale University in English literature.^[4][10]

As a newlywed after Yale, she decided against a doctoral program at Columbia University and instead moved to San Francisco, California and began working in public relations and marketing. Her husband's graduate studies then took them to Boston, Massachusetts.^[3] In 2009 they settled in Salt Lake City, and McBaine became creative director at Bonneville Communications where she worked on the "I'm a Mormon" advertising project.^[11]

McBaine self-published her first book in 2009, How to be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman. In 2014, Greg Kofford Books published her book Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact, which addressed tensions regarding the roll of women in Mormon culture, and proposes possible solutions.^[3]

In 2010 McBaine founded the Mormon Women Project, a 501c3 nonprofit that collects and publishes interviews of Mormon women from various countries around the world.^[12] As a Mormon feminist, McBaine also advocated for LDS women to lead the church's refugee-assistance efforts.^[13] McBaine also served as Chief Marketing Officer at Brain Chase Productions, maker of an online learning program for grade school students.^[4]

Publications

Books

• McBaine, Neylan (2009). How to be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman. Lexington, Kentucky: lulu.com. ISBN 978-0-557-05647-7. 
• —— (2013). Sisters Abroad: Interviews from the Mormon Women Project. Englewood, Colorado: Patheos Press. ISBN 9781939221179. 
• —— (2014). Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 1589586883. 

Articles

• McBaine, Neylan (Winter 2007). "Seeds of Faith in City Soil: Growing Up Mormon in New York City". Dialogue. 40 (4): 163–77. 
• —— (Spring 2008). "Just Mom, Dad, and Me". Segullah. 4 (1). 
• —— (Winter 2008). "A Spiritual Awakening Amid a Hippie Faith: [Review of On the Road to Heaven]". Dialogue. 41 (4): 195–98. 
• —— (Fall 2012). "To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation Within Church Organizational Structure". Dialogue. 45 (3): 70–97.  Originally presented at the 2012 FairMormon Conference.^[14] Later published in Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 257–62.
• —— (2015). "Finding the Waters of Mormon". In Jensen, Emily W.; McKay-Lamb, Tracy. A Book of Mormons: Latter-day Saints on a Modern-Day Zion. White Cloud Press. pp. 64–68. ISBN 978-1-935952-90-9. 
• —— (2016). "Filling the Page: Women's Choices in the Context of Gospel Boundaries". In Holbrook, Kate; Bowman, Matthew. Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-477-1. 
• McBaine, Neylan (2016). "Latter-day Saint Women in the Twenty-First Century". In Hales, Laura Harris. A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History. Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book. ISBN 978-1-9443-9401-1. 
• ——; Cassler, V.H. (Summer 2016). "What's in a Name? SquareTwo Poll Survey Results on the Naming of Women's Positions and Organizations in the LDS Church". SquareTwo. 9 (2). 

See also

• Mormon blogosphere
• Mormon feminism

References

External links

• MormonWomen.com
• McBaine, Neylan (August 9, 2010). "The future of Mormon motherhood". Washington Post. Patheos. 
• List of media referencing McBaine's work