“Education isn’t simply about literacy, it’s about giving girls back their power.”
  ~ Shiza Shahid ~

Shiza Shahid is a social entrepreneur, television personality, and a world-renown advocate for the right of every child to a quality education. Since she was 14 years old and living in her native Pakistan, Shahid has been an advocate and activist for girls’ education and gender equality.

As a teen, she spent time working with children born to women in prison and volunteered at a relief camp in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2005. When she turned 18, Shahid received a scholarship to Stanford University and moved to California, but she never stopped reading about her home country, particularly the issues facing its women. She graduated from Stanford with University Distinction.

Shiza Shahid believes that education can change lives.

Armed with that idea, Shahid played a key role in the creation of the Malala Fund after her friend, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the face by the Taliban while sitting on a school bus. After the shooting, Shahid left her job as an analyst at McKinsey & Company to help found the Malala Fund, which seeks to empower girls through education and to ensure that every girl has access to quality schools and teachers.

Shahid has recently launched NOW Ventures which is a fund focused on supporting mission-driven startups whose financial success makes the world a better place.

Come hear Shahid talk about The Extraordinary Impact We Can Create—a personal talk about Shiza’s journey and struggle to create social change. She will talk about her work with founding the Malala Fund and her mission to create scalable social change today; about how ordinary people can make extraordinary waves, and how each of us can become change makers.