Sonya Passi is the founder and CEO of FreeFrom, a national organization on a mission to create pathways to financial security and long-term safety for survivors of gender-based violence. Sonya has been a domestic violence activist since she was 16 years old. Before founding FreeFrom, she launched the Family Violence Appellate Project while earning her law degree at UC Berkeley.

Sonya talked about the need to understand and address the pervasive financial abuse that occurs in domestic violence situations on an individual, community, and systemic level; about the transformational work that FreeFrom does to provide resources in financial literacy and recovery to survivors of gender-based violence so that they can rebuild their lives and thrive; and about FreeFrom’s upcoming Survivor Wealth Summit, the first of its kind, which will provide opportunities for attendees to redefine wealth and build new skills and tools to support their financial security.