Joanne Sprague is a recognized social impact leader with expertise in scaling programs, partnerships, and campaigns globally. Her current role as the first-ever head of the Everlaw for Good program brings her passion for using the power of markets to address one of the world’s biggest challenges, access to justice.
The Everlaw for Good program, established in 2017, aims to level the playing field for justice—an urgent need in a country where 92% of civil legal problems encountered by low-income people go unresolved, and a world where more than 5B people lack meaningful access to justice. The program offers Everlaw’s products at free and highly discounted rates to legal nonprofits, pro bono cases, investigative journalists, and educators to help litigators for the public good get to the truth efficiently and cost-effectively.
Prior to Everlaw, Joanne spent eight years in social impact at Facebook/Meta, where she helped build the company’s first suite of social impact products and programs, co-led the launch of its first community philanthropy fund, and oversaw a team that built programs focused on nonprofits, equity, and climate change. Prior to Facebook, Joanne was the CEO of a nonprofit startup that worked to improve LGBTQ+ inclusion by educating and activating allies. She has a background in international development, has lived in Kenya, India, and Nicaragua, and is a proud Returned Peace Corps Volunteer.
Joanne holds an AB in Mathematics from Dartmouth and an MBA from Duke.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Joanne enjoys exploring locally and globally with her family and energetic dog.
