Sabrina Hersi Issa

Sabrina Hersi Issa is the CEO of Be Bold Media, a digital agency focused on global advocacy. She is also the co-founder of End Famine, a campaign dedicated to seeking sustainable solutions to global hunger launched in response to the famine in the Horn of Africa. She recently served as a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute where she focused on technology, humanitarian disasters and human rights. Previously, she was a Program Adviser at Afghans for Civil Society, an NGO that developed women's programs and independent media in southern Afghanistan, worked for National Public Radio and Oxfam America. She's advised women legislators on digital civic engagement and social media and launched the Rights & Tech, a gathering for activists and technologists.

Sabrina is a Truman National Security Partner and an adviser to Digital Democracy. She was awarded the Young Woman of Achievement Award for Social Innovation by the Women's Information Network and Washingtonian Magazine named her a Woman to Watch as part of it's Most Powerful Women in Washington issue.

She earned her BA from Ohio State University and is based in Washington, DC.