Press

I’m available for interviews or speaking engagements, particularly as they relate to these topics:

  • Juggling work and family
  • Why parents burn out
  • Why businesses should care
  • What’s wrong with work, and how to fix it

Contact katrina AT workingmomsbreak DOT com. (Replace ‘AT’ with ‘@’ and ‘DOT’ with ‘.’)

The plight of working parents

These are some of the places I or my blog have been featured since I launched this site in 2010.

  • “We Are Women. Hear Us Roar. Again.” | May 2012 | Diablo Magazine
    I was interviewed in this story about the next wave of feminism, the intersection of motherhood and work, and how “women are finding a middle way that may be a path to the future.”
  • The Second Shift | 2012 edition
    I’m really, really honored to be included in the 2012 updated version of Arlie Hochschild’s bestselling book about the stalled gender revolution, which was first published in 1989. The new Afterward quotes, for three paragraphs, a Huffington Post piece I wrote in 2010 called “If You Give a Mouse a Prozac.”
  • Panel on Custom Fit Workplaces | July 2011 | Berkeley Startup Cluster
    Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn and MomsRising asked me to join her for a panel discussion about what is broken about the modern workplace, and how we can fix it.
  • The Wall Street Journal | The Juggle | January 2011
    Occasionally I get a little Wall Street Journal “bump” when the editors link to something I wrote about, like this “hat-tip” and this one.
  • Listen To Your Mother reading | August 2011 | BlogHer conference, San Diego, CA
    I read this piece for the Open Mic Salon. You can see a picture of me looking possessed as I read from the podium here.
  • “It’s Time to Talk to Employers About Domestic Workers’ Rights” | April 2011 | Colorlines
    Reporter Akiba Solomon interviewed me about the impact a new law to protect domestic workers might have on working parents who employ them.
  • Ladybrain | April 2010 | KUSF 90.3 FM San Francisco
    We talked about why it can feel impossible to “do it all” as a working parent. The full interview is available here.
  • “Your Time with Kim Iverson” | March 2010 | radio interview
    Interview with syndicated talk show that airs in 10 cities about my “decision” to quit working. (Was it really a decision?) Full interview available here.

General parenting stuff

Mothers and the environment

I participated in a series of studies through the Environmental Working Group after my first child was born and got a slew of media attention when the results came out.

  • “Toxic Household Dust?” | 2004 | CBS national news
    A video from one of the interviews I gave after the second set of results were published. (I had a different last name, Katrina Friedman.)
  • “Study Finds Flame Retardant in U.S. Breastmilk” | 2003 | San Francisco Chronicle
    Chronicle Environment reporter, Jane Kay, interviewed me about the first study I participated in, which tested the breast milk of new mothers for flame retardants (a neurotoxin). My results were several times higher than the average amount found in women when the chemicals were banned in Europe.