Kayla Fruchtman // Founder of The Her Initiative

As Director of Development and Marketing for Healing Waters International, Kayla realized that a woman cannot fully be empowered without access to clean water- it’s that simple. By creating The Her Initiative, Healing Water’s campaign for women and children, she is uniting her passion for women and girls with the most basic human need:  clean water. Kayla has had a passion for empowering women for as long as she can remember! As a young teen she mentored younger girls at summer camp and knew then that empowering women and girls would always be a part of her life. While studying at Oxford University she wrote a thesis on a 19th century missionary who used education as a means to empower the former slave women of Jamaica. That research led her to a career in the non-profit world, focusing on education and empowerment.