Sasha Fisher

Biography

Sasha Fisher is the co-founder & executive director of Spark. Spark exists to shift aid and development efforts from top-down and prescriptive to bottom-up and community-driven. Towards a world where every village, every neighborhood has the right fulfilled to drive their own future. Sasha is an inaugural Obama Fellow, winner of the Mohammad Ali award for Respect, and a Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur. Sasha has led the organization from concept to a multimillion dollar operation reaching upwards of 700 villages across six countries. Today Spark works with governments and leading civil society organizations on national scale programs primarily across sub-Saharan Africa.