Malala Fund Advisors
Update: Watch video of Malala speaking out for the first time since the shooting,"I want every girl, every child, to be educated."
Who We Are
Core Advisory Committee
Supporting Organizations
Supporting Advisors and Friends
Who We Are
We are a small group of committed individuals — education entrepreneurs, lawyers, teachers, business and tech leaders, engineers, innovators and NGO representatives — who came together in late October 2012 to support Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old activist who was shot by the Taliban because of her outspoken support for girls’ education.
As we talked, we decided it was important to gather both financial resources and an innovative team from our multi-country, multi-disciplinary group to push to fulfill Malala's vision for all girls to be educated and empowered around the world.
We launched the Malala Fund to do just that — and to support the Yousafzai family’s advocacy for education for all children. Currently, the right to education is denied to 61 million children of primary school age, including 32 million girls.
Without actually meeting face-to-face, the group in San Francisco, Lahore, Washington D.C., Dubai, and Birmingham, among other cities, worked across time zones, media platforms and languages to design a legal fund, create a website and support the campaign in Pakistan of A Global Day of Action for Malala ("Malala Day") on November 10, 2012.
This network of supporters teamed up with Vital Voices to establish and manage the Malala Fund, which give grants to organizations and individuals supporting girls' education in Pakistan and around the world. It is advised by a core committee comprising education experts and entrepreneurs, as well as the Yousafzai family.
Thank you for your support!
Read Megan Smith's announcement of the Malala Fund in the Huffington Post.
Contact us at MalalaFund@vitalvoices.org.
Core Advisory Committee
The Malala Fund supports the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world and provides grants to civil society organizations and individuals focused on education. It is advised by a core committee comprising education experts and entrepreneurs, as well as the Yousafzai family.
Malala Yousafzai
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Shiza Shahid, McKinsey & Company
Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices
Megan Smith, Entrepreneur, VP Google[x], MIT Corporation
Elizabeth Gore, Vice President of Global Partnerships, United Nations Foundation
Nigham Shahid, freelance social researcher
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Supporting Advisors and Friends
Jean Marie Bertrand, Special Counsel, NY, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
John Butler, MPA Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Mariam Chughtai, Founder-President, Harvard Pakistan Student Group
Ron Conway, Silicon Valley Angels
James Eberhard, CEO and Founder, Mobile Accord
Gilles Fuchs, MPA Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Ron Garan, Astronaut/Manna Energy Foundation; FragileOasis.org blog
Mark E. Kelly, Astronaut, husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords
Hiraa Khan, UC Berkeley Graduate Student
Anjali Kumar, Social Entrepreneur, Google
David Miller, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Academy Award & Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker
Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director at Menlo Ventures
Paul Rademacher, Co-Founder, Tasty Labs
Jen Snyder, Executive Director, the mGive Foundation
Katie Jacobs Stanton, VP, Twitter
Susan Celia Swan, VDay
Rizwan Tufail, Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard, Entrepreneur
Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education
Friends, family friends, Pakistan and diaspora contacts too numerous to list
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Contact us at MalalaFund@vitalvoices.org.
Banner image: Geoff Brokate and Kaye Martindale
