Karen Tse's human rights ministry is helping to eradicate torture

Tse took a break from her international human rights legal work to attend Harvard Divinity School. She had been deferring admission to HDS for a decade, choosing to attend law school first and work in the trenches as a public defender. In 1997, she sensed the time was right finally to combine her passion for reforming criminal justice practices with deeper spiritual questions. After graduation from HDS in 2000 and ordination as a Unitarian Universalist minister in 2001, she began to envision an organization that could help ordinary citizens who are subjected to torture. She began to build a human rights organization called International Bridges to Justice (IBJ).