Malika Saada Saar, MEd, JD, is the founder and executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, a national legal and policy organization that advocates for justice, dignity, and reform for vulnerable families. The Rebecca Project has worked to reform policies and practices to raise children in healthy, safe, and strong communities, and to render vulnerable mothers and their children—and all families—free from sexual and physical violence, trauma, and addiction.
The Rebecca Project for Human Rights’ achievements have been recognized by the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for Changing World Award. Saada Saar and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights were also selected by Redbook magazine for the Mothers and Shakers Award.
Saada Saar is also the founder of Crossing the River, a written and spoken word workshop for mothers in recovery from substance abuse and violence, and founder and former executive director of Family Rights and Dignity, a civil rights project for low income and homeless families in California. She also served on the Obama presidential campaign’s women policy committee.
Saada Saar and the Rebecca Project have been featured in Politico, Essence magazine, the Washington Post,, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Redbook, and on the Tavis Smiley Show and Good Morning America. Saada Saar is also a contributor to Politico, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Beast.
What People are Saying About Malika Saada Saar
“Malika simply is the best political advocate for these women—actually the best political advocate period—I’ve ever seen.”
—Tom Downey, lobbyist and former Democratic congressman from New York
“[Malika Saada Saar] quietly amassed the kind of reputation in this city that gets her calls returned and her opinion respected....Malika is a force.”
—Autumn VandeHei, staffer for former House Republican Leader, Tom DeLay
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