Name: Faduma (Fatima) Abdullah Hassan Ali

Recipient Year: 2013

Major: Public Interest Law

Description: Fatima Hassan Ali  is a third year student at Harvard Law School, where she is a student attorney with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Her interest span from law in developing countries and emerging markets to media, gender equality and politics.  During her 1L summer Fatima worked on asylum petitions with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic as the Cleary Fellow.As the Haas Center and Freeman Spogli International Public Service Fellow, she worked with the UN-led Global Protection Cluster in Geneva focusing on gender-based violence in humanitarian crises. Fatima was honored by the White House as a “Champion of Change” for her work in mobilizing the diaspora during the East Africa famine in 2011. Fatima graduated in 2009 from Stanford University with degrees in Human Biology and African Studies. She received the James W. Lyons Service Award in 2008 from Stanford.UPDATEFatima graduated in 2014 and is a Judicial Law Clerk at U.S. District Court,Southern District of Texas.

School Name: Harvard University

Sponsor: CAIR-SFBA Scholarship|Council on American-Islamic Relations

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