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by Amber Schroeder, Executive Director, ATSA

I recently finished the latest season of The Pitt and kept thinking about why it works so well. It isn’t just the pacing or the medical crises. It’s the way the show captures human complexity. Nobody is reduced to a stereotype. The staff are competent but flawed. Patients are messy. Systems fail. Emotions leak ...

Sexual abuse and human trafficking are being examined more openly than ever in documentary filmmaking, with a noticeable rise in projects over the past year. What we are seeing is, in many ways, an expansion of the true crime genre — but with a meaningful shift. Audiences are no longer satisfied with the what and the who. They are increasingly asking why this harm occu...

by Amber Schroeder, ATSA Executive Director 

On January 7, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order directing the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations, including multiple United Nations bodies and affiliated entities tied to population health, violence against children, and sexual violence in conflict. The administratio...

By Amber Schroeder, ATSA Executive Director 

While watching the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning with my partner over the weekend, we kept pausing the film. Each time another person described witnessing Diddy causing or direct...