Charmaine Yoest, vice president for communications at the Family Research Council, will present a public lecture at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School titled, "How Abortion Harms Women," at 4:30 p.m. April 4 in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
It is free and open to the public.
The Family Research Council is a conservative nonprofit lobbying organization that promotes socially conservative views and what it considers traditional family values.
She is executive producer of the council’s weekly and daily radio programs, "Washington Watch Weekly" and "Washington Watch Minute," and oversees all aspects of the programs’ online and new media communications.
In addition to her role at the Family Research Council, Dr. Yoest is project director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. The project is a nationwide study focused on parental leave policy funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bankard Fund.
Dr. Yoest’s research focuses on social and family policy issues. She has also done work on tax policy, child care policy, welfare reform and gender and the welfare state. She has testified on such issues before the United States House of Representatives and Senate.
Dr. Yoest earned her doctorate in politics from the University of Virginia. She also did graduate work at Oxford University in ethics and philosophy.
