Malika Saada Saar

Malika Saada Saar is an American human rights lawyer who is Google's Senior Counsel on Civil and Human Rights. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Malika Saada Saar
Born
Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationLawyer
EmployerGoogle

Saada Saar is the founder and Executive Director of Rights4Girls, a human rights organization focused on gender-based violence against young women and girls in the U.S.[1] She also served as Special Counsel on Human Rights at The Raben Group and Executive Director of the Rebecca Project.[2]

Biography

Saada Saar was born in Pennsylvania and raised in the Philadelphia area. She attended Brown University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.[3] Later Saada Saar earned a master's degree in education from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.[4]

Saada Saar co-founded the Rebecca Project with Imani Walker while at Georgetown. As Executive Director at Rebecca Project, she led a successful campaign persuading policymakers to pressure Craiglist to shutdown its adult services section, formerly a leading platform for child sex trafficking.[5]

In 2010, Saada Saar was selected to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS by the Obama Administration.[6]

Saada Saar's background is Northern African, Arab, European, and Jewish.[7]

References
  1. "Finding And Stopping Child Sex Trafficking". NPR.org. 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  2. Todd, Bridget (2015-03-27). "Malika Saada Saar's quest to improve human rights for women". MSNBC. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  3. "Taubman Luncheon Speaker Series: Malika Saada Saar '92". Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  4. "Malika Saada Saar". The Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  5. Rossheim, John (2012-05-23). "Woman Warrior". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  6. "Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS". The White House. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  7. Roig-Franzia, Manuel (2009-12-24). "A D.C. activist with humble roots has powerful people adopting her cause". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
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