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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.
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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
editSaada Saar's name at birth name was Edee Saada Saar; she was raised in the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 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 is the daughter of the late Gail Weiner of Havertown, Pennsylvania and Shalom Saada Saar, an academic administrator and expert on leadership.[7] Accordingly, her background is Northern African, Arab, European, and Jewish.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Finding And Stopping Child Sex Trafficking". NPR.org. 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ Todd, Bridget (2015-03-27). "Malika Saada Saar's quest to improve human rights for women". MSNBC. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ "Taubman Luncheon Speaker Series: Malika Saada Saar '92". Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ "Malika Saada Saar". The Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ Rossheim, John (2012-05-23). "Woman Warrior". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS". The White House. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "Shalom Saada Saar". Center For Leadership Development. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
- ^ 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.