Name: KPBS Producers Club Event with NPR's Sarah McCammon
Start: 2024-04-24T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-04-24
Location: KPBS Conrad Prebys Media Complex at Copley Center

KPBS Producers Club Event with NPR's Sarah McCammon

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Join us for a special evening with NPR's Sarah McCammon

KPBS Conrad Prebys Media Complex at Copley Center

Join us on Wed., Apr 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the KPBS Conrad Prebys Media Complex at Copley Center for an exciting evening with NPR National Political Correspondent Sarah McCammon. Sarah will be joining us to discuss her new book <a href="https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/the-exvangelicals/" title="https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/the-exvangelicals/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church</a>. The 2024 book is part memoir and part journalism in which Sarah places her own disillusionment and discovery in dialogue with the stories of other former evangelicals to examine this burgeoning movement and its social and political impact on the world. Sarah will give us a preview of her book followed by an insightful conversation with KPBS Midday Edition Host Jade Hindmon. You will also have a chance to ask Sarah a question during the audience Q&amp;A. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to meet one of NPR's award-winning journalists as well as network with fellow Producers Club members.

Sarah McCammonSarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion policy and the intersections of politics and religion. She's also a frequent guest host for NPR news programs.She has covered several presidential elections, including the 2016 campaign, when she reported on the rise of the Trump movement, divisions within the Republican Party over its future, and the role of religion in those debates. McCammon's reporting has documented the growing political power of the religious right culminating with the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, efforts by abortion rights advocates to push back, and the rising tide of white Christian nationalism.She's frequently called upon to cover breaking news events and national politics. Her work has won numerous awards, among them a 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, a 2023 Wilbur Award for religion reporting, a Gracie Award in 2020 for her reporting on reproductive rights, and a National Press Club Journalism Award for team coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018.

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