Yasmin Halima

Yasmin Halima is an award-winning women’s rights activist. Formerly the director of a national organization that established shelters for abused women of color and their children in the United Kingdom, she successfully petitioned the UK government to prevent married immigrant women from being deported when they reported domestic violence from a spouse. For over two decades, she has worked in public health and human rights leading organizations that work to protect the lives of the most vulnerable women and children. Previously, she served as an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International AIDS Society, and as director of a global non-profit pioneering technologies to prevent women and girls from becoming infected with HIV.

From her childhood in Gujarat, India, to growing up in the heart of industrial England, and later making a home in Washington DC, Yasmin’s fierce independence has focused on creating opportunities for women of color. Yasmin is a graduate of the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.