Individual Member: Sasha Rabsey

Sasha with Aminata Diallo, a HOW Fund grantee and Ashoka Fellow, on a recent site visit to Burkina Faso

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Sasha Rabsey was born and educated in the United States. She has BA in Political Science and an MA in Comparative Politics. Sasha lives with her husband Fred and three almost adult children in Orinda, California. Sasha is committed to giving girls a chance and she has a vision of a world where all girls are empowered with education and opportunity. When Sasha founded the HOW Fund in 2009 she quickly honed her philanthropic focus towards programs that offered mentorship for adolescent girls. Since then she has passionately advocated for girls and young women through her widely read blog. Today, the How Fund provides grants to projects that benefit young women and girls and in 2011 it created the HOW Fellowship program. In its second year the Fellowship has recognized four mentoring innovators from around the world, each of whom will receive a professional development grant and attendance at the prestigious Opportunity Collaboration Conference in Ixtapa, Mexico. Sasha’s commitment to girls’ empowerment is firmly based in her belief that giving girls a chance is a worthy goal in and of itself, not only because it supports food security and economic development, but “It’s the right, just, and fair thing to do.”

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