Every Issue is a Reproductive Justice Issue: How Young Lawyers can Integrate Reproductive Justice into their Career

Join Wasserstein Fellow Sapna Khatri to learn how to view reproductive justice through a wide-angle lens, recognizing that issues such as economic justice, racial equity, and environmental justice are all interconnected in the pursuit of reproductive justice. Using her own career as an example, Sapna hopes to provide students with insight navigating legal pathways and developing skills that can enhance one’s ability to advocate effectively for reproductive justice, regardless of where they practice. This session will both provide an overview of integrating reproductive justice into various aspects of legal practice, while also offering practical advice to aspiring advocates on identifying and pursuing opportunities that make a meaningful impact in the field.

Lunch provided. RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.

If you or an event participant requires disability-related accommodations, please contact HLS Accessibility Services at accessibility@law.harvard.edu two weeks in advance of the event.

Sapna Khatri is the Director of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Reproductive Justice Unit. She leads the new unit as it focuses on ensuring that Massachusetts remains a national leader on reproductive justice matters. Sapna’s work includes protecting and expanding access to reproductive and gender-affirming care, addressing disparities in maternal health, championing vital tools like protections on data privacy, and working across state lines to respond to national attacks on reproductive and sexual health care. She utilizes a suite of tools including litigation, investigation, policy advancement, and public education in pursuit of her Unit’s goals.

Prior to joining the AGO, Sapna worked as a Sears Clinical Law Teaching Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles Law School. She launched the school’s inaugural Reproductive Justice Externship Program and led efforts to establish the nation’s first Medical-Legal Partnership at a Planned Parenthood clinic, in partnership with the Black Health Initiative at Planned Parenthood Inglewood and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Preceding her time at UCLA, Sapna served as a law fellow in the Women and Reproductive Rights Project at the ACLU of Illinois and later as the organization’s Advocacy & Policy Counsel for privacy, technology, and surveillance matters. Sapna earned her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was honored as the Public Service Student of the Year for her graduating class, and her bachelor’s degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia.