1. Katie Halper is the host of the podcast The Katie Halper Show and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Aaron Mate.
20 Facts About Katie Halper
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Katie Halper grew up on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Katie Halper graduated from the Dalton School, and from Wesleyan University in 2003.
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Katie Halper is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and has described herself as a secular Jew.
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Katie Halper's father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist.
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Katie Halper coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida.
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Katie Halper has taught history at her alma mater, the Dalton School.
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Katie Halper began her career performing as a stand-up comedian.
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Katie Halper has performed comedy at venues including Symphony Space, The Culture Project in New York, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the DC Comedy Festival, and at Netroots Nation.
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Katie Halper performed on the annual Seminar Cruise of The Nation magazine.
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Katie Halper has performed with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon, and Jim Hightower.
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Katie Halper is a national director of Living Liberally and the co-founder of Laughing Liberally, both of which promote political action through social interaction.
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Katie Halper was outreach director for Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary The Take.
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Katie Halper was co-producer of Tim Robbins and the DCTV film Embedded Live, based on Robbins' play of the same name.
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Katie Halper was associate producer of Estela Bravo's Free to Fly: The US-Cuba Link, about restrictions on travel between Cuba and the United States.
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Commie Camp, originally entitled Another Camp Is Possible, is a documentary about Camp Kinderland, the Jewish summer camp where Katie Halper went and her mother and grandmother worked.
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Katie Halper co-directed Facing Fascism: New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
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Articles by Katie Halper have been published in The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, OpenLeft, The Raw Story, Jacobin, Salon, Vice, The Guardian, and Feministing, where she was a guest columnist.
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In September 2022, Rising refused to air a segment on their show in which Katie Halper called Israel an "apartheid government".
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Katie Halper was co-host of the podcast and YouTube program Morning Jew with Heather Gold.