Ben Sacks

Ben is a social impact strategist who turns great projects into amazing ones through collective goal planning, thought leadership, and branding that attract the most aligned and transformative funders and partners. He has raised over $50 million for nonprofits and social enterprises. His work has grown budgets by 500%, angered building staff who struggled to find office space for all the new positions his fundraising created, and led the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) to an 8-figure award through TED’s Audacious Project. Currently, Ben serves as: 1. Director of Development for Justice in Motion, which builds a movement of rights defenders in North and Central America so that migrants’ rights can cross borders even more easily than they can. All too often, US lawyers can’t pursue migration cases that require coordination with their home country. But Justice in Motion’s Defender Network of over 60 lawyers and human rights advocates in Mexico and Central America empower those lawyers with their expertise and put justice in motion for migrants across the region. Justiceinmotion.org. 2. Senior Advisor to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), a global nonprofit leveraging science and innovation for human rights, truth, and justice on 5 continents. With multi-disciplinary forensic methods and technologies, EAAF exhumes mass graves, identifies remains, tells their families of the truth, and generates evidence that has convicted dictators and high-profiles perpetrators in 12 countries. EAAF’s Border Project investigates migrant disappearances in North and Central America as well as North and West Africa and southwest Europe. With the largest genetic database of missing migrants’ relatives, EAAF has identified hundreds of missing migrants and built a treasure trove for seeking the truth, justice, and policy change. Eaaf.org

Armies of rights defenders around the world are building systems so that every human has the rights that you and I deserve. Let’s both help them!

Fitting a square peg in a round hole—If you know the right angle, it’s always a straight shot.