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episode 42: Episode 042: Nur Kara on Researching Laws and Policies that Support Menstrual Health for School Children
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Nur Kara is an attorney at DLA Piper LLP (US). She was selected to spend her first year at the firm working exclusively on global pro bono matters. Now, outside of her litigation practice, she continues to work on project development for New Perimeter, the firm’s non-profit affiliate, focusing on menstrual rights and policies, intimate partner and gender-based violence, and women’s education and advancement.
In this episode, Nur talks about her leadership of a project New Perimeter is working on where a team of attorneys is drafting a multi-country study on the laws and policies related to menstrual equity in the education sector, with guidance from Days for Girls’ experts and affiliates.
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Nur Kara is an attorney at DLA Piper LLP (US). She was selected to spend her first year at the firm working exclusively on global pro bono matters. Now, outside of her litigation practice, she continues to work on project development for New Perimeter, the firm’s non-profit affiliate, focusing on menstrual rights and policies, intimate partner and gender-based violence, and women’s education and advancement. She also represents immigrant clients seeking asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, and temporary protected status, among other humanitarian pathways, as well as survivors of domestic violence seeking protective orders. Prior to law school, Nur served as a Fulbright Researcher to New Delhi, India, where she implemented a survey-based study and original curriculum for almost 700 students to address the sociocultural barriers to adequate menstrual health. She has also counseled adolescents on child labor laws and sexual assault in Uganda and worked in global health administration. Nur holds a B.A. in Political Science and Human Rights from the University of Chicago; an MSc. in Health Policy, Planning & Financing jointly from the London School of Economics & Political Science and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
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