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Kate Dickerson, Outreach Associate

Kate Dickerson, Outreach Associate, joined the Center in 2010 and focuses on media and public education outreach efforts.  Prior to joining the Center, she spent several months living and working in rural Tanzania with the human rights organization WOMEDA: Women’s Emancipation and Development Agency.  She also played an integral role in the creation and development of Feel Good, a student-run initiative that focuses on helping communities, both domestic and international, to become self-sustainable.  Ms. Dickerson graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a dual degree in Communications and Psychology and educational certificates in African Studies and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

My Take

Family-Friendly Workplaces: How Health Reform Helps Nursing Moms

Posted by Kate Dickerson, Outreach Associate | Posted on: August 30, 2010 at 09:50 am

Working mothers who breastfeed will benefit from a provision in the new health reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or the ACA). Specifically, the law states that employers must provide nursing mothers with an adequate and sanitary space (i.e. not a bathroom) to express breast milk and sufficient break time to accommodate pumping, for at least one year after a child’s birth.

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