Sasha Fisher is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spark Microgrants. Her experiences in South Sudan, South Africa, India, and Uganda led to her passion for community-first development and, in July 2010, she moved to East Africa to develop the Spark Microgrants system of change. In addition to leading Spark, Sasha is on the Board of Directors of InterAction, the largest U.S.-based alliance of international NGOs and partners which mobilizes members to act collectively to serve the world’s poor and vulnerable. She is an inaugural Obama Fellow and Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow. She was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurship list and was honored with the Muhammad Ali Award for Respect. Sasha holds a BA from the University of Vermont in Studio Art and a self-designed major of Human Security, a paradigm for development that recognizes the rising legitimacy of non-state actors in securing basic human needs.