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  • Name: Wafa Jawad

    Recipient Year: 2018

    Congressional Office: Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA)

    Description: Wafa Jawad is a junior at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts majoring in Government, minoring in Middle East Studies. Wafa is the transfer senator with the Smith College Student Government Association, publicity chair for Al-Iman. Wafa is a volunteer with Amnesty International, serving as a Student Activist Coordinator and was also the president of her past college’s Amnesty International group, where she worked with her local elected officials to organize a town hall discussion about President Trump’s “Muslim Ban”. In the future, Wafa hopes to expand on her research and pursue a future in foreign policy and international relations, perhaps even running for public office.