Safeena Husain has worked extensively with rural and urban underserved communities in South America, Africa and Asia. Armed with a London School of Economics degree, Husain first worked in a start-up in Silicon Valley. She soon switched gears to lead the US-based organization Child Family Health International for seven years. In 2004, she returned to India to take on an issue closest to her heart and launched Educate Girls in 2007. She has shepherded the organization through dramatic growth since then. In 2025, Educate Girls became the first Indian organization to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award.