Name: Mariam Azhar

Recipient Year: 2012

Major: Political Science

Description: Mariam Azhar graduated from Berkeley Law in 2019, where she served as editor for the Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law and the Journal of Criminal Law. She interned at the ACLU National Security Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and worked as a summer associate at Covington & Burling LLP.  Mariam received a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 2013 and, prior to law school, spent three years working at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. Mariam is currently a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

School Name: University of California, Berkeley

Sponsor: South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA) Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-azhar

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient