Name: Ashruf Ghanimah

Recipient Year: 2012

Major: Acting

Description: Osh Ghanimah is an MFA in Acting student at Harvard University. Originally from Chicago, he holds a B.A. in both Theatre and English, as well as a B.S. in Secondary Education from Loyola University Chicago. After much lobbying, he also founded the Martinez Media Arts & Film Production Lab.Upon completion of his corps experience, he was recruited to teach theatre and found the theatre program at Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem. He served his last two years at Dreamyard Preparatory School in the Bronx. As an actor, has appeared on stage across the globe. Osh just completed a three month acting residency at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia where he studied under many of Stanislavsky’s direct protégés. Osh is the Founder and Executive Director of a new social justice, arts project–Broadway For All–which brings together students from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. UPDATEOsh founded Broadway for All and lives and works in New York.

School Name: Harvard-Graduate

Sponsor: Dollar-A-Day Scholarship Fund

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oshghanimah/