Name: Daniel K. Khalessi

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2021

School Name: Stanford University

Major: Law

Description: Daniel Khalessi was the President of the Stanford Law Review, becoming the first Muslim and Iranian-American elected to that role. A graduate of Stanford Law, Daniel's interests include constitutional law, foreign policy, and emerging companies. Before law school, Daniel co-founded Fireside, a digital town hall, and worked at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where he analyzed U.S. foreign policy toward China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. He earned an M.A. from Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and an M.A. in Economics from Peking University in China as a Yenching Scholar. Daniel attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, receiving his B.A. in International Relations with Honors from the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a Certificate in Iranian Studies in 2013. While at Stanford, he interned for Ambassador Susan Rice at the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Middle East North Africa Office and studied abroad at Oxford.

Sponsor: Muslim Community Association of the Bay Area (MCA) Scholarship