Shira Saperstein

Shira Saperstein is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and the Deputy Director and Program Director for Women's Rights and Reproductive Health at the Moriah Fund, a private foundation based in Washington, D.C. and operating in the United States and internationally. Moriah gives away $8 million annually in grants to organizations working on women's rights and health, poverty and economic justice in the United States, international trade and development, human rights and social justice in Guatemala, and pluralism and equal rights in Israel.

Before joining Moriah in 1989, Shira worked as a researcher at several policy and advocacy organizations and as part of a consulting team at the Management Assistance Group, which provided organizational development assistance to a wide range of advocacy and service nonprofits. Shira was the founding Co-Chair of the Funders' Network for Population, Reproductive Rights and Health (1997-99) and currently serves on the board of the Summit Foundation and on the Steering Committee of the Global Campaign for Microbicides. She is a graduate of Harvard University.