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Emily Orr

Emily Orr is an Associate Producer at Retro Report. She is involved with production and development of long-form films and series. Emily reported and researched for Retro Report’s five-part series “Hitting Home,” about housing and evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In college, she directed a short doc on the mental health services at Cook County Jail, which premiered at AmDocs Film Festival in 2020.

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Local Communities at the Center: The Making of “Hitting Home”

by Emily Orr October 24, 2022

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. When Covid-19 left millions of Americans unemployed and at risk of falling behind on rent, governors announced stay-at-home orders to preserve public health. Suddenly having a place to live became a matter of life or death, and the phrase “eviction moratorium” entered […]

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What Happens When a Sheriff Challenges an Eviction Order?

by Emily Orr October 1, 2020

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