Sara Ketabi

Sara Ketabi is Founder and CEO of Hale. Sara is one of two honorary members of the UNICEF USA National Council of Leadership Development, designing national programs and global networks. She spearheads social entrepreneurship, global health, and global citizenship for sustainable development to improve the current education system. Sara is a Global Board Advisor of Electus Education, a pioneering AI education start-up. She co-founded Hale to develop sustainable development focused engineering solutions to tackle the issue of poverty/global health, and has founded edtech platforms with the support of UNESCO, the World Bank, UNDP, and the African Union in the past as well as a data science startup. In addition, she has founded a social innovation nonprofit organization that inspires students to find their passion(s) and launch social impact initiatives through skill-building workshops,conferences, and education projects. Sara has spoken at the UNICEF Global Annual Summit on leading through the Sustainable Development Goals, UN High Level Political Forum, the Women Economic Forum, Harvard UNICEF, and more. She’s a Global Scholar and United Nations SDG Honors Awardee.