Leadership

Yasmin Vafa is co-founder and Executive Director of Rights4Girls. An award-winning human rights attorney and advocate, Yasmin's work focuses on the intersections of race, gender, violence, and the law. As a nationally recognized expert on gender-based violence, Yasmin has successfully advocated for several laws at the federal and state levels, testified before the U.S. Senate and international human rights bodies, and co-authored several reports exposing the criminalization of girls and young women of color, particularly, survivors of gendered violence.
Yasmin and her work have been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Public Radio, PBS News Hour, ABC News, NBC News, Reuters, and more. She currently serves on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth, is an adjunct judicial educator for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and is a founding co-chair of World Without Exploitation— a national coalition of over 200 anti-trafficking organizations working to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation.