In this episode of Purposeful, Ashley Bernardi sits down with Elise Keppler, Executive Director of the Global Justice Center, for an important conversation about women’s rights, reproductive freedom, abortion access, gender equality, human rights law, and global justice.

Elise shares her work as a human rights lawyer and explains how the Global Justice Center uses international law, legal advocacy, and policy reform to defend gender equality and advance accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes around the world.

At a time when reproductive rights and human rights are being challenged in the United States and globally, this conversation helps explain why abortion access is a human rights issue, how authoritarianism often targets gender equality, and why advocacy still matters even when progress feels difficult.