Guest Commentator

Olivia Alperstein, Institute for Policy Studies

BC Guest Commentator Olivia Alperstein is the Media Manager at the Institute for Policy Studies. She works to advance bold policies and ideas and challenge unjust policies through strategic communications on issues impacting human health and survival. She believes that strategic messaging and compelling stories are critical to to persuade decision-makers and ordinary people to care and take action. For years, she has used her communications skills to fight the good fight, and she is honored to work and collaborate with amazing advocates and partners on issues from human rights to climate change. Her prior experience includes work in communications, development, legal organizations, political campaigns, and not-for-profit advocacy.

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Guest Commentary

Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

By Olivia Alperstein, Institute for Policy Studies Guest Commentator

I’ve been in marches where I carried signs with the same exact slogans that my mother, her sisters, and my late grandmother carried. I’ve fought for the same rights and protections that they did. And I’m furious that their victories are under dire threat.

The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body. So as a human with reproductive…

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