Deshi Singh built her foundation over a decade in investment banking and global financial services — at Morgan Stanley, and hedge funds Och Ziff and Hudson Bay Capital Management. More than twenty years of combined Wall Street and entrepreneurial experience later, she has directed that institutional rigor toward something larger: the systems that shape human life at its most fundamental level.
That redirection was never a departure from precision — it was an expansion of what precision demands. Today, she applies the same analytical discipline she honed in capital markets to the fights that matter most: ending sexual exploitation and trafficking, advancing maternal and child health, and building the accountability structures that protect the vulnerable and create lasting, generational change.
Central to that work is a clear-eyed advocacy for the equality model — the position, backed by research and survivor testimony, that prostitution is a form of violence against women, that it builds direct demand for trafficking, and that pornography and the mass sexualization of the female body are serious public health crises. These are not fringe arguments. They are the conclusion of evidence examined honestly.
Currently pursuing a Master of Public Health at Harvard University, Deshi brings the same rigor she applied to balance sheets to the most consequential design questions of our time: who do our systems protect, who do they harm, and what does evidence-based transformation actually require?
She is the proud mother of three boys — and says without hesitation that it is the greatest gift of her life. She believes deeply in educating and uplifting boys, understanding that the path to an economically robust and thriving world is a world free of exploitation and grounded in respect for all — and that path runs directly through the young men we raise, the expectations we hold for them, and the capacity for connection we protect in them.
Based in New York City. Operating globally.
