Tesmerelna Atsbeha

Biography

Tesmerelna Atsbeha is a Senior Program Officer at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. Her grantmaking focus is reproductive rights and the global prevention of Gender-Based Violence. She seeded the Accelerator to end Gender-Based Violence and Fondo Autonomía, a collaborative fund for Reproductive Autonomy. Tesmerelna has served in leadership roles with Funders for Reproductive Equity, Fenomenal Funds and the Collective Future Fund, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative and the Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University. She is also part of the Gender Funders Colab. She previously worked with UN Women, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, UNDP and the Global Fund to end AIDS, Tuberculosis and Maria in Eastern and Southern Africa. She holds qualifications in International Relations, Public Health, and Organizational Psychology.