Sara K. Gould

Sara K. Gould
Born	Grand Haven, Michigan
Citizenship	United States
Education	Grand Valley State University, Harvard University
Movement	Feminist
Board member of	National Immigration Law Center, Proteus Fund

Sara K. Gould is a feminist leader, philanthropist and activist in the United States. She served as president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women from 2004 to 2010. She is a vice chair on the board of directors of the National Immigration Law Center and serves on the board of the Proteus Fund.

Gould grew up in Grand Haven, Michigan with five brothers and sisters. She was raised in a Christian background and as a young person was very involved in the church. Later, as an adult, she became "much more secular." In 1973, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from Grand Valley State University. Gould was married at age twenty and she followed her husband to Syracuse where he was attending law school. During her time in Syracuse, she began to see that she was following his dream instead of her own. Gould realized that she was "viewing her life through the prism of gender" and shortly after she left her marriage and went to graduate school at Harvard University. She received her master's degree in city and regional planning from Harvard in 1977.

After graduating from Harvard, Gould went to work in Massachusetts with Community Development Corporations (CDCs), but she didn't feel fulfilled by the work. In 1983, the Women's Action Alliance in New York called Gould to work on a project with them involving women's economic development.

At the time, the Women's Action Alliance and the Ms. Foundation for Women shared space in the same building. In 1986, Gould joined the Ms. Foundation. Gould began to identify economic development organizations throughout the country and began a grassroots program to help women identify their own seats of economic power.

In 1988, Gould started the Institute for Women's Economic Development under the Tufts University umbrella.

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