CINCINNATI — An Ohio political science professor is now one of the selected few who will be addressing world leaders during the NATO summit.

Natalie Hudson has been busy trying to turn 20 years of published research into minutes.

“They gave me 10 minutes," she said. 

That’s how long she’ll have to speak to NATO world leaders and she’s focused on one thing: women's rights. 

“I mean, we see a lot of pictures of these peace talks and I always look and say, okay, where are the women?" said Hudson. “We need to think about the unique protection needs that women and girls have during conflict and after conflict, we need to include women in the peace process at the negotiating table in conflict resolution."

Hudson, a political science and law research professor at University of Dayton, said it’s been her passion since she was in college.

“I came across this resolution and it's called the resolution is resolution 1325, it was passed by the security council in 2000, I came across it a few months after it had been passed, and I was astonished to learn that this was the first resolution that the security council had adopted that was specifically on women and gender," said Hudson. 

She’s been researching ever since and running the Human Rights Center on campus in the process.

“We do work on immigration, we do work on women and gender, we do work on race relations," said Hudson. 

She said she hopes to bring issues like those to the forefront at the NATO summit and push for more equality and inclusion.

“It's a tricky time to do women's rights and gender equality work, particularly in the context of the us as one of the native members and so navigating that and pushing members to think about maintaining their commitment to women, peace and security," said Hudson. 

Hudson is scheduled to address world leaders on Saturday.