The Tanya Acker Show
TV host, author and attorney Tanya Acker talks to newsmakers, trendsetters, and leaders of every stripe about the forces that drive their decisions and how their choices impact everyone else. How do they move forward in an environment where lies spread faster than truth? How do they see the glass as half full when someone is sucking the liquid out of it with a jumbo straw? When do they know it’s time to take on a battle and when is it time to redirect energy? And how does anyone have any fun in the middle of all this? Join Tanya and her guests as they dig into all.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 189
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Holding Social Media Companies Accountable - Between Classes
Tanya talks to Zamaan Qureshi, a college student co-founder of Design It For Us, about the campaign to make social media safer for young people, and his lawsuit against the SEC.
The Art that Makes You Happy!
Tanya talks to artist, illustrator and entrepreneur Angie Quintanilla Coates about the art of keeping us on the bright side.
(Original air date: April 7th, 2022)
A Timely Conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna
This week Tanya talks to Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) about the war in Ukraine, our relationship with China, the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and the resulting war in Gaza. They also discuss in-office …
People Lie. When to Make them Pay. When to Move On.
Tanya talks to the lawyers who helped Dominion Voting Systems achieve a $787 million settlement in its defamation case against Fox News over false claims of a “stolen” election. When is the lie someo…
Tanya Talks to Justice Kyra Harris Bolden of the Michigan Supreme Court
Tanya talks to the history-making justice about the family tragedy that led her to the bench, and busting through other people’s assumptions to do what you must.
(Original air date: 3/22/23)
Crypto for Beginners, FTX, and One of the Biggest Financial Frauds on Record
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, faces up to 100 years in jail for his role in one of the biggest financial frauds on record.
In this re-release, Tanya talk…
Fentanyl Poisoning Took Her Sons - How She Fights Back
Tanya talks to Rebecca Kiessling about loss, healing, and fighting the fentanyl crisis.
Special Re-Release: Triumph in Uvalde
While Uvalde remains a community that mourns, heals, and remembers its victims, it is also a community that moved Albert Martinez to drive 140 miles to teach music at Uvalde High School. This is the …
Tanya Talks Music with Kelefa Sanneh (The New Yorker)
Tanya talks to the author of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, about the significance of musical genres; our fandom and our tastes; and some of music’s most powerful moments.
Great Hoaxes: The Time People Believed A Woman Gave Birth to Rabbits
Tanya talks to Karen Harvey, author of The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
Great Hoaxes: The Time People Believed There Were Praying Man-Bats on the Moon
Tanya talks to Matthew Goodman, author of The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York. The story is cr…
Adulting When Governing
Tanya talks to Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels about voting rights, building relationships across party lines, and new ideas for helping working people get a leg up.
Great Mom, Great Vision, and a Lemonade Stand
9-yr old Grayson Roberts was born with little sight but great vision and an extraordinary mother, Terica. Listen as they talk about what it means to be “limitless.”
Tanya talks to Musician Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & The Gang
Tanya talks to the Kool And The Gang frontman about being the most sampled group in hip hop; how the music business has changed over the years; music education for kids; and, making champagne.
Standing Up For Kindness
Diana Grossman of Mallory’s Army Foundation talks to Tanya about her daughter Mallory’s legacy and what we all can learn from it.
They Didn’t Like the Way Schools Treated Their Kids. So They Did Something.
Janelle Wood founded Black Mothers Forum to address concerns about how schools were treating Black children. Listen as she and Shannon Hayes talk about the alternative option BMF offers to all childr…
Overcoming Miseducation and Illiteracy - A Conversation with Oliver James
For 35 years Oliver James was functionally illiterate - even though he had a high school diploma. Listen to what happened when he decided to stop mimicking life and start living it.
Human Trafficking and Gilgo Beach
Tanya talks to human trafficking expert Dottie Laster about the consequences of sex trafficking and the impact of the Gilgo Beach cases on the families of the victims.
He Invented the Barcode!
Tanya talks to Paul McEnroe, author of The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Technologies, about innovation at the dawn of the Computer Age.
The Price of Lies
They helped secure a $787 million settlement for their client, Dominion Voting Systems, against Fox News. Tanya talks to Megan Meier, Daniel Watkins, Dustin Pusch and Andy Phillips of Meier, Watkins …