About 

Ouleye Ndoye is a global leader in health and human rights with over a decade of experience in government, non-profits, and academia. She has received fellowships and scholarships to work, teach, and study in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and at home in the USA. Her advocacy for girls and women has been highlighted by C-Span, New York Times, Washington Post and Atlanta Voice, among other news outlets.

Committed to bridging the academic-practitioner gap, Ndoye is currently pursuing her doctorate in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  She is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Ndoye received the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship to study in Cairo, Egypt. Through the Institute for International Public Policy (IIPP) Fellowship, she interviewed African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, Israel and administered a USAID grant for the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance, where she worked with girls in rural Senegal to prevent child marriage, increase educational outcomes, and create opportunities for entrepreneurship.

As a Luce Scholar, she worked in Southeast Asia for over a year, living at a center focused on rehabilitating child survivors of sex-trafficking along Thailand’s borders with Myanmar and Laos in the northern province of Chiang Rai — “The Golden Triangle.” Nearly a decade later, she collaborated closely with The Partnership for Freedom, "a public-private partnership dedicated to promoting innovative solutions to end modern day slavery” in the City of Atlanta, where she was appointed Senior Human Trafficking Fellow, a member of the Mayor’s executive cabinet.

Ndoye continues this work today with Georgia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) where she is pioneering the development of best practices for how the State of Georgia will respond to agricultural labor trafficking. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Wellspring Living, a non-profit organization providing transformative care for victims of sex trafficking — and those at risk — with specialized recovery services through residential and community-based programs.

Ndoye cares deeply about women’s well-being and maternal health. She completed Postpartum Doula classes with DONA International in 2017, and to this end, founded the Ministry of Motherhood at Ebenezer Baptist Church that same year, to walk with new moms on the road from pregnancy through the early months and years of motherhood. In 2020, she joined the Board of Motherhood Beyond Bars, the only nonprofit organization in the state of Georgia offering health education, advocacy and support for incarcerated pregnant women and the caregivers that take in their newborn babies. She continues to research this through the Maternal Health Leadership Lab at Harvard. Her greatest accomplishment to date is becoming the proud mother of two incredible small humans, Chloé Ndiémè and Caleb Babacar.

Born and raised in upstate New York, she graduated from Spelman College, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with honors, in the top 1% of her class. Ndoye went on to earn her master of science from the University of Oxford, Green Templeton College, in the United Kingdom; and master of arts from Columbia University in the City of New York. Passionate about the betterment of society at home and abroad, Ouleye Ndoye continues to dedicate her professional and intellectual pursuits to causes that support women’s and children’s rights in the United States and around the world.