Does She Feel Safer? A Conversation with SafeNest's Liz Ortenburger

Domestic violence keeps surfacing in our casework — quietly, often without a single official record before someone disappears. This episode, we sit down with Liz Ortenburger, CEO of SafeNest, Nevada's largest domestic and sexual violence nonprofit, to ask why. Liz challenges some of the field's oldest assumptions — that punishment alone makes people safer, that funding should only go to survivors, that "why didn't she just leave" is even the right question — and lays out what a system built on prevention, not just response, could actually look like.