ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid

Hello and happy new year. I hope your new year's starting out great. This week we are bringing you an episode from our archive. It's a conversation I had with Shiza Shahid. She was the director of the Malala Fund for a few years before she went off to start a for-profit company, a company called Our Place that creates home goods. you know, pots and and cookware and things like that. Anyway, it's a really cool story about how somebody went from the nonprofit world to the for profit world. And if that's you or not, either way, you will learn a lot from this episode and um hope you enjoy it. Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. And for those of you who are listening to the lab for the first time.

Let me briefly explain what we do on this episode that is slightly different from our Monday show. How I built this on Monday focuses on founders who created big brands that have become part of our culture in some way. The lab is a place where we meet founders and entrepreneurs who are working on big ideas that could have a significant impact on the world. This is also the place we talk to interesting content creators and even past guests from the show to catch up on what's been going on in their lives now. So today, our guest is someone who, at age 22, Helped to build one of the most visible non-profit groups in the world. The Malala Fun.

Shiza Shahid grew up in Pakistan and was a student at Stanford. when she first heard about Malala Yusuf Zai. Malala, of course, first came to public attention at age 11 when she chronicled her efforts to get an education in a part of Pakistan that was controlled by the Taliban. Shiza soon became a mentor to Malala. And eventually, with Malala's father, Ziadin, built the Malala Fund into an international foundation dedicated to helping educate girls around the world.

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