Vital Voices

I mean, I ...

Please know I am on the board of Vital Voices.

I really fight for women's right.

I take it extremely seriously, all of that, very much so, and I deplore this wave of machism that is happening and that e- everything is a bullet.

Elsa Marie is a Yale World Fellow, a Reagan Vassell Fellow, and an Aspen New Voices Fellow.

And her work has been recognized by the United Nations, the Government of India, Vital Voices, and the BBC's 100 Women.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has cited Elsa Marie from the podium as an example of what gives him hope.

Elsa Marie, welcome to our show.

And I was their first official gender advisor that kind of helped set up those systems and get that thinking going.

And then I ended up actually going to Vital Voices Global Partnership.

By that point, I wanted to work at a place where I didn't have to convince people to change their systems because, you know, they already cared about the importance of working on gender equality in women's environment.

But I really wanted to get an experience working hand in hand and in partnership with the people that you're working to support and advance these issues in their communities.

But even since then, in person, you know, we...

I mean, we've been out and about on tour, and even we were in DC a couple weeks ago and we did a Vital Voices event, and DC's an absolute mess obviously because-

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That's not why I went into law school, to do things and be forced to work these ridiculous hours for something I didn't really care about.

So I actually went back to an organization that I had worked with in college called Vital Voices, and I became their Asia program officer.

Very happy to use my legal background, all the skills that I learned, but gearing it more towards advocacy rather than traditional lawyering or traditional litigation.

Oh, I love that.