Aissatou Bah is a Senior Program Officer (Adolescents and Youth Learning Agenda, AYLA) at the Gates Foundation. The AYLA team is tasked with sourcing learning and evidence to support the if and how we can leverage entertainment media and cultural/faith influence to effect societal wide changes/shifts in norms that impact health, economic and safety outcomes for adolescent girls and young women. Based out of Nigeria, she anchors the team’s grantmaking and strategy in Africa.
Before this, she worked for Empower-The Emerging Markets Foundation, BRAC USA and the Government of Sierra Leone and has over 15 years experience working on girls’ and young people’s rights, programs and movements. She exists to support, platform and resource young Africans and their stories as a path to bringing about a more just and equitable world.
Aissatou grew up between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone was formally educated at the University of Ghana, New York University and University of California, Los Angeles.