Name: Zafir Omair Shaiq

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2009

School Name: UCLA

Major: Economics

Description: Zafir Shaiq was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied economics at UCLA, where he served as the President of the Muslim Student Association at UCLA. He is also a former director of the Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project. Zafir went on to study law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, which led him to working at the Office of the Alameda County Public Defender.

Sponsor: ISF