Malika Saada Saar

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

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] Saada Saar is a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards[3] board of directors.

Malika Saadar Saar

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.[4] Later Saada Saarr earned a master's degree in education from Stanford University, and then a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.[5]

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.[6]

In 2010, Saada Saar was selected to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS by the Obama Administration.[7]

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References
  1. "Finding And Stopping Child Sex Trafficking". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  2. "Malika Saada Saar's quest to improve human rights for women". MSNBC. 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  3. "Who We Are". Grady College and University of Georgia. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  4. "Taubman Luncheon Speaker Series: Malika Saada Saar '92 | Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy". watson.brown.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  5. "Malika Saada Saar | SPH | Boston University". School of Public Health. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  6. "Woman Warrior". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  7. "Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS". The White House. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
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