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Sabrina Gracias is the founder of Ortus Foundation, a foundation focused on prevention, transformational impact, and systemic models of change for the mental health crisis among teens and young adults. Its mission is to collaborate with schools and community-based healthcare systems to provide stronger mental health services, and to advance research on adolescent brain development. In conjunction with her foundation’s mission, Sabrina is an early-stage investor in transformational technologies and companies that elevate the mental health space, providing capital to support the best and most innovative companies that align healing, responsibility and profitability. Sabrina’s philanthropic positions include:
Prior to starting Ortus Foundation, Sabrina raised capital for Valor Equity Partners, an operationally active private equity firm focused on expansion and growth investments. Prior to joining Valor Equity Partners, she was Regional Director at Frank Russell Company and a Principal at State Street Global Advisors in Institutional Sales, responsible for marketing alternative and active asset class strategies to endowments, foundations and pension plans.
Sabrina has a B.A. in marketing from Georgetown University and a C.E.in finance from Oxford University in Oxford, England; and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She completed the Global Public Health Leadership Program at Harvard T.H. Chan’s School of Public Health.
She is a frequent conference speaker on youth mental health in rural America, including during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Outside of her work, Sabrina is an avid downhill skier and adventure traveler. Her greatest love, however, is her children.
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