“Malika Saada Saar”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Malika Saada Saar (born ~1970^[1] in Pennsylvania) is a human rights activist who currently serves as Google's Senior Counsel on Civil and Human Rights. She founded a non-profit organization, The Rebecca Project, that works to provide services and aid to women who are suffering from domestic abuse issues, addiction, and abuse while incarcerated. She advocates to end child sex-trafficking, exploitation of women and young girls. Currently, she lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and children.

Early life

Malika Saada Saar was born and raised in Pennsylvania close to the city of Philadelphia. She was raised by her grandmother and mother, without any support from her father from the age of seven.^[1] When she was fifteen she left home to shadow{{clarify me|date=April 2018|reason=What is meant by "shadow"? Is this a form of study? An obsessive stalking?}} Mitch Snyder, a Washington activist for the homeless. While working with Snyder, Saada Saar became familiar with the lives of the homeless, at one point living in a homeless shelter to better understand their plight.^[1] This encouraged her to take action to fight for the rights of those around her especially women and children.{{cn|date=April 2018}}

Education

Grade School

Saada Saar attended a majorly white public school and faced judgement along with other ethnic students.{{cn|date=April 2018}} She was placed into classes for students with learning disabilities. Her mother worked to get her out of these conditions by persuading a Hebrew Academy to provide a scholarship while Saada Saar was in the sixth grade.^[1]

Higher education

Saada Saar attended Brown University for her undergraduate degree. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Public Policy Analysis.^[5] She continued her education by attending Stanford University to obtain her Master's Degree in Education.^[2] Finally, she obtained her Doctorate of Law degree in 2001 from Georgetown University Law Center.^[2] It was during her time at Georgetown that she founded The Rebecca Project.{{cn|date=April 2018}}

The Rebecca Project

Saada Saar was teaching a drug treatment program when she first met the co-founder of the Rebecca Project, a single mother named Imani Walker.^[3] The Rebecca Project advocates for women who face multiple hardships such as domestic abuse, addiction, or being incarcerated. The Rebecca Project has helped secure over $200 million in federal funds to support family rehabilitation programs.^[3] The Rebecca Project also works to improve the conditions of incarcerated pregnant women. Restraints are used on mothers during labor and the delivery of their children.^[4] This practice is still legal in most of the United States, but the Rebecca Project is among those organizations working to end this practice. Other causes the Rebecca Project works with are sexual violence in jails and prisons, the drug felony ban,{{clarify me|date=April 2018|reason=What's the "drug felony ban"?}} and how to improve the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA).^[4]

References

1. ^¹²³{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122303289.html|title=A D.C. activist with humble roots has powerful people adopting her cause|date=2009-12-24|access-date=2018-04-01|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}
2. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/malika-saada-saar-26204a56|title=Malika Saada Saar|last=Saada Saar|first=Malika|date=|website=Linkedin|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=19 April 2018}}
3. ^¹{{Cite news|url=http://www.oprah.com/spirit/stop-human-trafficking-the-rebecca-project|title=Taking a Stand Against Sex Trafficking|work=Oprah.com|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en-us}}
4. ^¹{{Cite web|url=http://www.rebeccaprojectjustice.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=23&Itemid=52|title=The Rebecca Project for Justice|website=www.rebeccaprojectjustice.org|access-date=2018-04-20}}