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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer • Bonus Episode • Civia Tamarkin

Policing Pregnancy and Privacy in a Post-Roe America.

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Investigative Journalist and Filmmaker Civia Tamarkin, Exploring the Policing of Pregnancy and Privacy in a Post-Roe America.


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Civia Tamarkin is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and former television news executive. She has produced independent and cable documentaries as well as developed programming content, models and strategies for cable, internet and digital global platforms. Tamarkin formerly was a CNN executive and Executive Producer of CNN’s Emmy Award weekly news magazine show “CNN & Time.” She produced investigative segments and series for ABC World News Tonight, half-hour specials for Nightline and contributed to ABC’s coverage of major news stories. Her investigative reporting led to one of the first exculpatory DNA exonerations in America as well as the exoneration of a death row inmate. She has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers and reported stories in Central America, Africa, India and Southeast Asia, including the fall of Vietnam and its aftermath. Tamarkin has received a National News and Documentary Emmy, National Emmy nominations, National Headliner Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and awards from The Society of Professional Journalists, the Overseas Press Club of America and the Chicago Headline Club.

Tamarkin is a nationally recognized speaker and authority on the collateral damage from the war against reproductive rights and reproductive justice.  She has testified in front of lawmakers in an effort to block restrictive reproductive health care legislation and coordinated legislative strategy with the Arizona Reproductive Rights Coalition. Currently, she is the president of the Arizona section of the National Council of Jewish Women, a leading nation-wide progressive advocacy organization that influences policy from the state house to the White House.