Name: Amara Majeed

Recipient Year: 2017

Major: Political Science

Description: Amara is a rising junior at Brown University. At 16, she founded The Hijab Project, which seeks to promote the understanding and empowerment of Muslim hijabi women through social experimentation. The project has received international attention from Good Morning America, BBC, The New York Times, Seventeen, and other media outlets. At 17, she published a book intended to shatter stereotypes about Muslims. She has worked with or at institutions including but not limited to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, U.S. Department of Education, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Poligon, Witness Against Torture, and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition. She is currently doing Muslim advocacy work in D.C., where she works at several of the aforementioned organizations, separately does research relating to African American civil rights leader Imam Jamil Al Amin, and does advocacy work against the Countering Violent Extremism program and Guantanamo Bay.

School Name: Brown University

Sponsor: Linda Sarsour Courage Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amara-m-b6b9b197/