Name: Areeb Siddiqui

Recipient Year: 2020|2023

Major: Law

Description: Areeb is a 3L at Yale interested in pursuing a career in government lawyering. Areeb attended UT Dallas, where he became involved in work related to segregation, predatory lending, and financial discrimination, which ultimately led him to work in informal settlements in South Africa. At Yale, Areeb is involved in the Housing, Free Exercise, and Veterans Legal Services Clinics. Areeb has also recently gained an interest in religious discrimination work, which led him to intern at the ACLU Religious Freedom Project. Areeb took a gap from law school to work as a law clerk at the White House Counsel's Office and now works for Senator Whitehouse on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has also worked at Arnold & Porter in DC and at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. After graduation, Areeb will serve as a law clerk to Judges Maria Kahn on the Second Circuit and Denise Cote on the Southern District of New York.

School Name: Yale Law School

Sponsor: Ghulam and Arifa Azad Family Scholarship|David Dobbins Memorial Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/areeb-siddiqui-a030a8130/