Name: Ali Mirza

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2025

School Name: University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

Major: JD

Description: Ali Mirza is a second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a public interest fellow. On campus he is Assistant Managing Advocate for the Employment Advocacy Project, a Golub Capital Board Fellow, and an editor for the Journal of Law and Social Change. During his 1L summer he worked as a Peggy Browning Fellow for Justice at Work Boston and a litigation intern at Civil Rights Corps. His interests include criminal law reform, workers’ rights, and improving access to justice. Before law school, he worked in eviction defense in Detroit, the Vera Institute for Justice, ACLU National, and the Illinois Governor’s Office. He received a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a member of the university’s board of trustees.