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 , a human rights organization focused on gender-based violence against young women and girls in the U.S. She also served as Special Counsel on Human Rights at The Raben Group and Executive Director of the Rebecca Project. Saada Saar is a member of
the George Foster Peabody Awards board of directors.
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. Later Saada Saarr earned a master's degree in education from Stanford University, and then a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
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.
In 2010, Saada Saar was selected to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS by the Obama Administration.
