Name: Madiha Patel

Recipient Year: 2025

Description: Madiha Patel is a PhD student at Texas Tech University studying Technical Communication and Rhetoric (TCR). She earned her MA in WRTC from James Madison University and completed her BA in International and Religious Studies at Towson University. Her research interests are accidental activism and quiet activism, ethics in communication, grants, counterpublic rhetorics, religious rhetoric, US muslim communities, and peacebuilding. Madiha currently provides grant writing services and communication strategies to community-based nonprofits. Her work centers on supporting nonprofits serving marginalized, underserved and underengaged communities.

School Name: Texas Tech University

Major: Technical Communication and Rhetoric

Sponsor: Syeda Zehra Batool Jafri Scholarship