Susannah Farr
CEO | Gold Youth Development Agency and Gold Enterprises
Susannah Farr was born and raised in South Africa. She is a mother of three children and married to Anthony Farr.
Susannah is a visionary social entrepreneur who holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Stellenbosch. Inspired by a God-given passion to find innovative solutions that address the youth education and unemployment crisis amongst the most vulnerable, she founded gold Youth Development Agency and gold-enterprises of which she is the current CEO. Through the gold hybrid structure, young Africans from disenfranchised communities are being ignited with hope. They are up-skilled and supported to complete their education and go on to reach their social and economic potential.
Susannah is a Triga Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and Globalizer, 2016 Social Entrepreneur category winner in the South African Regional Business Women Achiever Awards and part of the 2020 Ashoka ASPIre societal change mission leader cohort. She is committed to changing the system of youth education and upbringing in Sub Saharan Africa- transforming the role of young people from being passive recipients of negative norms to proactive social and economic change agents who assume the role of empowering themselves and their peers to become the ethical leaders of tomorrow.
More than half of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, who make up the largest part of the population, are born into poverty, growing up in communities that visibly offer no hope, with few if any ethical role-models and mentors.