Jane Ruth Buckingham (née Rinzler; born 1968) is an American author and businesswoman who founded the consumer insights firm Trendera.

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

[15] Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The Los Angeles Times,[15] The Boston Globe, 60 Minutes,[16] and Good Morning America.

Buckingham is currently a contributing editor at Glamour,[18] and The Huffington Post,[19] and makes regular appearances on Good Morning America and The View.

[26][27] On October 23, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Buckingham to 21 days in prison, a $40,000 fine, and one year of supervised release.

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