Neylan McBaine

Neylan McBaine (born 1977) 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. 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. McBaine also works professionally as a marketing and branding specialist.

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

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. 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.

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 role of women in Mormon culture, and proposes possible solutions.

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. As a Mormon feminist, McBaine also advocated for LDS women to lead the church's refugee-assistance efforts. McBaine also served as Chief Marketing Officer at Brain Chase Productions, maker of an online learning program for grade school students.

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