Executive DirectorChildrens Rights Innovation Fund
Dr. Ramatu Bangura led the design and inception, as Founding Director, of the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF). Prior to CRIF, Ramatu served as a Programme Officer for the NoVo Foundation’s Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Rights Initiative, where she funded work to advance the rights, leadership and safety of adolescent girls in the United States and in the Global South. Ramatu has spent the last 25 years engaging in organising, advocacy, and research on a host of issues impacting transnational girls, including early and forced marriage, sexual violence, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and educational access for English Language Learners in the United States and Central America. Ramatu earned both a Masters of Education (EdM) and Doctorate of Education (EdD) from Teachers College, Columbia University.