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Jessica's TEDx talk on the moral and economic case for paid parental leave was the "Talk of the Day" on TED.com on 12/2/15, and has been promoted by politicians such as the U.S. Secretary of Labor and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. If it makes you want to DO something, consider starting here.

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Check out Jessica and Dr. Manny on Fox News Health, talking about breastfeeding, pumping at work, paid leave, and ... the Harlem Globetrotters?

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Latest interviews and press coverage ​

• Work. Pump. Repeat. was included in WNYC's Note to Self podcast's 10 Stellar Work/Life Balance Pick-Me-Ups  list, July 2016
  
• KBAK Eyewitness News, California governor oks increased pay during family leave, 4/12/16
• SheKnows, Ten Twitter accounts making a difference in the way babies are fed, 1/25/16
• NPR, A Look at the Case for Paid Family Leave, 1/11/16
• TIME.com, 10 TED Talks That Will Help You Be a Better Parent (#2), 12/28/15
• Stone Fox Bride founder Molly Guy calls WPR "brilliant" on instagram, December 2015
• Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine, Book Club: Our Picks from 2015
• Mother Mag, A Must-Watch TED Talk on the Case for U.S. Paid Maternity Leave, 11/5/15
• ​JOHNNYSWIM singer Amanda Sudano Ramirez calls Work. Pump. Repeat. "Everything I wish I knew 7 months ago, that I learned the hard way, and that I still don't know about nursing, working, and pumping." on instagram, September 2015
• Baby Caravan, A Conversation with Author Jessica Shortall, 9/21/15
• One Bad Mother (podcast), Episode 122, 9/18/15
• APlus, 11 Photos Brilliantly Parody the Struggles of Moms Breastfeeding at Work, 9/10/15
• The Stir, 9 Parody Photos That Nail What Being a Breastfeeding Working Mom is Really Like, 9/9/15
• Bustle, Parody Stock Photos Of Breastfeeding At Work Tell The Frustrating Reality Of Working Motherhood, 9/9/15
• UpSpring Baby, Work. Pump. Repeat: A Hilarious New Breastfeeding Book, 8/26/15 
• BlogHer, A Working Mom's Guide to Pumping, 8/24/15
• Every Mother Counts, Breastfeeding at Work with Jessica Shortall, 8/5/15
• San Diego Breastfeeding Coalition, Work. Pump. Repeat., 8/2/15

Jessica's writing around the web

• ELLE Magazine, 23 Women Show Us the Horrible and Depressing Spaces They Pump In, 4/20/16
• ELLE Magazine, How to Turn Any Room Into a Decent Pumping Space, 4/19/16
• The Atlantic, Work In the Only Industrialized Country Without Paid Maternity Leave (Part 2), 4/16
• The Atlantic, Life In the Only Industrialized Country Without Paid Maternity Leave (Part 1), 3/3/16
• Mashable, Where Breastfeeding Mothers Pumped at the Oscars, 3/2/16
• Motto (from the editors of TIME), What No One Tells New Moms About Going Back to Work, 2/22/16
• Refinery29, The Ugly Reality of a Too Short Maternity Leave, 2/5/16
• Ask Dr. Manny, Breastfeeding, Work, and the Law: What Are Your Rights? 1/15/16
• ELLE, 11 Celeb superpowers to steal for 2016, 1/16
• Ask Dr. Manny, Breastfeeding On Ice: Building a Stash Before Returning to Work, 1/6/16
• Moms Pump Here, Can I Pump Here? Understanding Your Breastfeeding Rights at Work, 1/2/16
• Feministing.com, We Are the 47%: Women, Work, and #PaidLeave, 12/7/15
• Huffington Post, Back to Work and Still Bleeding: The Shame and Peril of American Maternity Leave, 11/18/15
• The Bump, Why America's Lack of Paid Parental Leave Is Everyone's Problem, 11/17/15
• Pregnant Chicken, Your first-day-back-at-work breast pump bag packing list, 11/15
• Well Rounded NY, Working Mom Must-Haves, 10/13/15
• The Bump, We Can't Even Have Donuts? A Review of the Viral Breastfeeding Ad Campaign, 9/22/15
• BoredPanda, I Parody Corporate Stock Pics Because They Never Show the Reality of Breastfeeding As A Working Mom, 9/8/15
• The Bump, Where Breastfeeding Support Is Really Failing Working Moms (Hint: It’s Not At Desk Jobs), 9/8/15
• Working Mother Magazine, How Not to Be Donald Trump: Supporting Breastfeeding Employees Isn't That Hard, 7/30/15
• The Bump, Donald Trump Was Right: Removing a Liquid From Your Body at Work is Disgusting, 7/30/15
• The Huffington Post, Trump: The Voice of Business on Breastfeeding and Work, 7/30/15 (Highlighted on "featured blog posts")
• Giggle.com, 6 Tips for Heading Back to Work as a Working Mom, 7/30/15
• ABRAMS Books, The 5 things that are going to happen to you when you travel for work while you're breastfeeding, 7/27/15
• Thrive Momma, Pumping and flying for work, 7/5/15
• The Bump, Building a breastmilk stash before you go back to work, 6/22/15
• The Bump, Why I support working moms setting (and adjusting) their breastfeeding goals, 6/2/15
• The Bump, How a trip to Nepal convinced me I need to write a breastfeeding book, 5/21/15
• The Huffington Post, Dear Lactivist: I am not a milk-delivery system, 10/10/14
• Well Rounded NY, Pumping 101: Work Fashion, 2/14/14
• The Huffington Post, In breastfeeding, "good" beats "perfect" every time, 2/8/14
• The Huffington Post, Top 10 hacks for the working, breastfeeding mother, 2/4/14
• The Shriver Report, Has "breast is best" jumped the shark?, 11/20/13

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