Name: Sara Boutorabi

Recipient Year: 2021

Major: Screenwriting & Directing

Description: Sara Boutorabi is an Iranian-American filmmaker, raised in California, and based in New York City. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a dual degree in Rhetoric and Film & Media. She is currently a first-year MFA student at Columbia University in the Screenwriting & Directing program.

School Name: Columbia University

Sponsor: Islamic Institute of Orange County (IIOC) Scholarship