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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 30 Under 30: Shiza Shahid and the Malala Fund [Watch (HLS stream): 30 Under 30: Shiza Shahid and the Malala Fund](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JqHyPCAD.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2013-12-05. Meet Shiza Shahid, co-founder and CEO of the Malala Fund, which was started a year after the Taliban tried to assassinate 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai for speaking out about girls' rights to education._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:59 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Malala Yousafzai Returns to Pakistan Six Years After Being Shot by the Taliban](/video/5OSZilDM/) ### Malala Yousafzai Returns to Pakistan Six Years After Being Shot by the Taliban [Canada Gives Malala Yousafzai Honorary Citizenship](/video/RPxyoFGD/) ### Canada Gives Malala Yousafzai Honorary Citizenship [The Nantucket Project: Shiza Shahid](/video/n501ZY2L/) ### The Nantucket Project: Shiza Shahid --- ## Transcript >> I'm Callie Schweitzer, Director of Digital Innovation at TIME. I had a chance to sit down with Shiza Shahid, co- founder and CEO of the Malala Fund which was started a year after the Taliban tried to assassinate 15- year- old Malala Yousafzai for speaking out about girl's rights to education. Shiza has been called Malala's mentor and the Pakistani teen activist's right hand. She was chosen as one of TIME's 30 Under 30 World Changers. The Malala Fund has gained world recognition. You are the CEO and co- founder and you're 24 years old. Does that ever freak you out? >> A little bit it freaks me out and it's exciting and thrilling. I believe that if you're not challenged and a little bit terrified then you probably need to aim a little bit higher. >> What terrifies you most? >> You know when we started the foundation I said to Malala what do you wanted to do and I thought she'd say let's build schools or let's distribute books, and she said I want every girl to be in school and every girl to be powerful. And I said can we, you know, reduce the mission a little bit, can we say, you know, a country or you know. She said no. I want all girls. And so that's the mission and I love that. I love that extreme passion to solve this complex issue and to empower all girls and it's also terrifying. >> So your personal journey is a very interesting one. You graduated from Stanford then went to work at McKinsey in Dubai. What was the tipping point for you where you said you had to go start the Malala Fund with Malala? >> When I was graduating I wanted a business training and so I joined McKinsey and Company and that was an exciting thing to do and a very coveted job, but when Malala was shot I knew that I had to be there. I had to be there to help her on her journey to recovery. And that's why I went in and while I was with her, the story around her effort, her desire to go to school had become so large and people wanted to know how they could help, and she was still recovering at the time, and I knew that I could play an instrumental role in protecting her, she recovered but also in helping to build up this movement that she had started which was a movement to get all girls into school and teach them skills that are worthwhile, and I knew that I had both the passion as an activist, the training as a social worker, the desire to be entrepreneurial and innovative and the experience in the business world to bring that together. >> What inspires you every day? What is the kind of courage that this takes? >> I think when I see girls going to school and dreaming of bigger things of accessing something inside themselves, a joy, a capability of self- confidence that they never had that is so overwhelming and I'm so grateful to be able to have that impact on anyone's life. The potential that we could scale that and bring millions of girls an opportunity to delay marriage, to delay childbirth and to actually earn an income and have control over their lives is the most exciting thing for me. >> Do you have anything you say to yourself every day or any personal mantras that you live by? >> For me it's about waking up every day and saying am I doing everything I can today to be the best version of myself, because I know that the chance to do all of this is such a gift, and so many people with such great ideas and so much brilliance never get to do what they wanna do and have the impact that they could be having. >> And where did you develop that kind of gratitude for the opportunities you've been given? >> Growing up in Pakistan my own career path could've been very different and I see the people I grow up with having far less opportunity and if I look slightly further out to the more remote parts of Pakistan the things that girls live through there are heartbreaking. We hear Malala's story but there's so many other girls, so many girls on her own class who I've met who were, they're breathtaking and they never get to be anything more and that to me, knowing that scene that and hopefully changing that in some way is what reminds me of how lucky I am. >> And what do you see for the Malala Fund 5 years from now? >> I hope that we're able to change the way that girls are seen, girls in the developing world, not just as victims of circumstance but instead as the most powerful agents for change and progress in the world. I believe that girls if educated can break the cycle of poverty and lift their communities in a way that no other single group can do, and I think that if we as a global community of funders, innovators, educators, governments can recognize that and implement solutions that truly empower girls will have a very different world. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"30 Under 30: Shiza Shahid and the Malala Fund","description":"Meet Shiza Shahid, co-founder and CEO of the Malala Fund, which was started a year after the Taliban tried to assassinate 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai for speaking out about girls' rights to education.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/JqHyPCAD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-12-05T19:13:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JqHyPCAD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/JqHyPCAD/","duration":"PT5M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/JqHyPCAD/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```