Name: Omar S Rashad

Recipient Year: 2021

Description: Omar Rashad is a California-based journalist reporting on higher education, housing and state legislation. He is currently a metro reporting intern at the San Francisco Chronicle covering the Bay Area. Most recently, he covered higher education as a reporting fellow for the CalMatters College Journalism Network. Rashad is also a rising senior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he is the data and investigations editor at its student-run newspaper Mustang News.

School Name: California Polytechnic State University

Major: Journalism

Sponsor: Abdul Sattar Rydhan Memorial Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarsrashad/