Dr. Xanthe Scharff is a writer, an award-winning nonprofit founder, and a scholar focused on gender, foreign policy, and philanthropy. She co-founded The Fuller Project—the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking journalism about women—while reporting in Turkey and on the Syrian border in 2014. The Fuller Project’s reporting has spurred policy changes, historic new funding levels for women’s initiatives, and has saved lives. She is also the Founder and Board Chair Emeritus of Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa, an education nonprofit that reaches millions of girls throughout Malawi with radio programming and thousands of girls with scholarships and peer mentoring. The Helen Gurley Brown Trust recognized her visionary leadership in climate and gender reporting by awarding her a Genius Grant. In 2024, she received the Women’s Leadership Award from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for her public service.
Subscribe to our Mailing List
Signing up for our mailing list will alert you to our new research and analysis and our upcoming virtual and in-person events.