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JACKIE JUDD
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Jackie Judd is Vice President and Senior Advisor for Communications at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She joined the Foundation in 2003 as a Senior Visiting Fellow.
Ms. Judd’s current responsibilities include program development for the Barbara Jordan Conference Center and Kaiser Network, international journalism training in the coverage of HIV/AIDS and providing strategic communication advice.Ms. Judd is a former award-wining journalist. She was with ABC News for 16 years as a correspondent for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,” “Nightline” and “Good Morning America.” She also worked at National Public Radio on “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” and is a former CBS News Radio correspondent. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in political history at the University of California at Santa Barbara; several Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Joan Barone Award, a duPont Award, a commendation from Women in Radio and Television for a series on women’s health issues; an Emmy for “Nightline’s” coverage of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; and an Overseas Press Club Citation of Excellence for her piece on the Czechoslovakian secret police. She received a bachelor’s degree from American University in 1974.
