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Karen Sugar has worked for social justice and improving the lives of women for most of her adult life. While in graduate school, Sugar was introduced to the concept of microfinance. She became passionate about the potential for poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment. Before she even walked across the stage to get her diploma, she was planting the seeds for Women’s Global Empowerment Fund which she founded in 2007. Her Master’s thesis was titled, The Power and Possibility of Microfinance, arguing that microcredit alone can be an effective tool at poverty alleviation, but when bundled with social programming, can truly be transformational for women. Her motivation is the belief that poverty is imposed, and we in the industrialized nations are responsible the incredible suffering and disparity that exists in much of the rest of the world.

Before founding WGEF, Sugar worked with homeless women and children in Atlanta, Georgia; was a community organizer for