Fasika serves as a Judge at the Federal Tax Appeal Commission. Her commitment to justice and equity is complemented by a robust academic background.
Beyond her professional achievements, Fasika is a strong advocate for gender equality and leadership development. While in college, she served as a member of the University Senate and Academic Council. Her contributions to community service include volunteering with the Federal Attorney General and engaging in various roles that promote women’s rights, including as a member of the Ethiopian Women Human Rights Defenders Network (EWHRD).
Fasika is a skilled communicator and a passionate advocate for justice, bringing integrity and dedication to all her endeavors. Fasika has an LL.M in Business Law from Addis Ababa University and an LL.B in Law from Madda Walabu.
The Leader in Me
My professional life, particularly my tenure as a Judge within the Federal Tax Appeal Commission, instilled a strong, structured form of leadership defined by adherence to legal principle and judicial rigor. While effective, this foundation lacked a holistic framework for personal growth until I participated in the Haset Women’s Leadership Training. This program transformed my perspective, elevating leadership from a mere professional duty to an intentional, dynamic philosophy that now guides every facet of my work and advocacy. The training provided a precise lexicon for core leadership traits: Authenticity became the mandate to lead with integrity and build unwavering trust; Self-Management transitioned into a strategic self- awareness crucial for maintaining impartiality under pressure; and Time Management evolved into energy management, focusing on high-impact priorities. Most profoundly, the Haset training gave me a clear insight into the meaning of value, clarifying that knowing my core purpose and what cannot be compromised makes my goals clear and the complex journey toward them genuinely interesting and rewarding.
Building upon this foundation of purpose, the program redefined my practical leadership skills. Advocacy deepened into an active commitment to empower others. Meanwhile, Emotional Intelligence furnished the essential key to managing conflict and negotiation with empathy, ensuring collaborative resolution in multi-stakeholder environments a vital skill directly applicable to complex judicial proceedings. I now understand that leadership is the art of leveraging this defined self-authentic, self-managed, and anchored by unbreakable values to create measurable, positive transformation in others and in the systems we govern.
The final, transformative lesson from the Haset training was the expanded definition of wellness. I learned that sustainable, impactful leadership is not supported solely by physical health, but by a holistic commitment across five interconnected pillars. These include the capacity for emotional regulation in high-stakes legal work, the critical thinking required for mental clarity, the cultivation of strong relationships essential for social alliances, the responsibility for a positive professional and community environment, and the maintenance of a spiritual/religious compass for principled decision-making. This integrated approach allows me to bring my whole, principled self to my position. Ultimately, the Haset Leadership Training supplied the conceptual tools to seamlessly merge my professional excellence with my personal
mission, shifting the journey to be “The Leader in Me” from an ambiguous goal to a defined, integrated path of purposeful, enduring leadership.