Sonya Passi

Biography

Sonya Passi is the founder of FreeFrom, a grassroots nonprofit organization in the US dedicated to helping survivors of gender-based violence achieve economic justice and long-term financial stability. To date, FreeFrom has served over 30,000 survivors and successfully advocated for legislation and corporate policy that has created new financial protections for more than 12 million survivors in the US. Through her work, she’s helped disburse over $2.2MM in emergency cash grants to survivors across the US and Puerto Rico, and supported nearly 2,000 survivors in saving nearly $1MM via FreeFrom’s Savings Match Program. These efforts, coupled with the founding of the Family Violence Appellate Project, the first and only organization in California to provide pro bono appellate legal services to survivors of intimate partner violence, and the creation of Gifted by FreeFrom, a survivor-centered social enterprise, have solidified her reputation as a next-generation thought leader.