Mr. Salman Ravala is an attorney, arbitrator, and mediator in New York City. He is the Founder of the Dollar-A-Day Scholarship Fund, a member of the Board of Trustees at Scholarship America, and leads a variety of Access to Justice and Access to Higher Education initiatives around the United States and globally. He is a Life Fellow at the New York Bar Foundation and teaches at the New York Law School. A former Visiting Legal Scholar at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, Mr. Ravala most recently served as the Ariane de Rothschild fellow for Dialogue and Social Entrepreneurship, a program held in partnership with Columbia Business School and Cambridge University. Ravala's civic engagement and community service have been recognized with the American Red Cross Distinguished Service Award, the President's Call to Service Award, and an invitation to speak at the White House. His long term vision is to decrease the illiteracy rate in Muslim majority countries and throughout America as he believes that education leads to change, hope, progress, and opportunity.