Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Contraception, Safe Abortion, Gender Equality and Inclusion, Youth Leadership, Feminism, Social Justice and the Economic Empowerment of Girls and Young Women.

Pauline Faith Gartner was born and raised in Liberia. She received her Bachelor of Science in Bio-Medical Sciences from the University of Liberia in 2022. Pauline is the Executive Director of the Girls Health Alliance. She is one of the 300 Young Leaders of Women Deliver 2020-2023 Young Leaders Program, UN Women National Gender Youth Activist, Co-Chairperson Mano River Youth Network, and President Emeritus of the National Children and Youth Advisory Board of Liberia. She has spent the past ten (10) years advocating for girls and women's rights through action-based policy and programs; sensitization campaigns and the empowerment of community-based organizations to tackle Gender-Based Violence, teen health, early marriage, and SRHR in rural communities across Liberia.

Pauline’s work is triggered by personal experiences. In addition to the agony of losing her beloved mother to a reproductive health condition due to a lack of skilled health attendants, Pauline’s childhood friend died from an unsafe abortion when at age 17. The two tragedies ignited Pauline’s advocacy for women’s health, girls’ sexual reproductive health rights, and gender equality.

Since founding her organization, the Girls Health Alliance, she has helped shape action that provides girls the opportunity to have control over their bodies, participate in decision-making, and advocate for the protection of their rights, and justice for rape and sexual abuse victims in their local communities and schools in Liberia.

Pauline spends her free time cooking fufu, Producing detergent products, reading, traveling, including swimming in the pool, dancing, and working out.