Name: Samia Akther Hossain

Recipient Year: 2012

Major: Law

Description: Samia is a second-year student at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she is the co-coordinator of the Civil Rights Outreach Project. Samia is also an active member of the South Asian Law Students Association and the Boalt Muslim Students Association. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in International Political Economy. After college, Samia spent a year in Cairo as a Fulbright Scholar studying Arabic and teaching conflict mediation skills to refugee communities. In summer 2012, Samia worked with the ACLU’s Center for Democracy in New York working on cases related to NYPD surveillance of mosques, targeted killings in Yemen, and labor trafficking on U.S. military bases. Samia plans to continue building her legal skills to work as a future civil rights attorney. UPDATE Samia is currently a Judicial Law Clerk at the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of New York. 2016 Update: Samia Hossain is a Research and Writing Attorney at Federal Public Defender.

School Name: University of California, Berkeley

Sponsor: Cal Muslim Alumni Association Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samia-hossain-20648766/