Name: Salwa Shameem

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2014

School Name: University of Chicago

Major: Public Policy

Description: Salwa Shameem is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago where she studied economics and political science. Her research interests in development economics and foreign policy led her to the Clinton Global Initiative University in 2012. She was selected to serve as a HIA Fellow in Paris, France and a finalist of the CNN Bernard Shaw Prize. She then attended the University of Chicago to pursue a Master’s in Public Policy to study international development economics, graduating in 2016. Ultimately, she aims to work within the development sector. Salwa has also worked with USAID as a policy Analyst and became a staff writer for the Chicago Policy Review. Salwa also conducted a fact-finding mission to Vietnam with UN Women and co-authored a major UN Women report with the International Human Rights Clinic. She previously worked as an Associate Producer for the series The Secret Life of Muslims and within the consulting sector.

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