Name: Najeeb Hasan

Recipient Year: 2012

Major: Specialized Journalism

Description: Najeeb Hasan is an Annenberg Fellow studying Journalism and Religion at USC. He spent some formative years in the alternative newsweekly world, writing magazine-length stories for newspapers in San Jose, California, and St. Louis, Missouri. More recently, he has served as an editor at a non-profit organization in Berkeley, California, that is devoted to establishing the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. There, he helped curate the editorial and creative direction of the start-up venture. He holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. UPDATE Najeeb graduated in 2013.

School Name: University of Southern California

Sponsor: Sultana Zakir Naqvi Scholarship for Journalism and Writing

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/najeeb-hasan-7b149171/