Name: Zahir Latheef

Recipient Year: 2014

Major: Management

Description: Zahir Latheef is a Professor of Management at the University of Houston, completing his PhD at the same university in 2015. His research has been regularly presented at the largest academic conferences for management and industrial/organizational psychology. His dissertation focused on the relationship between volunteerism and work outcomes, and the role of organizational support in employees experiencing volunteering as a source of conflict or enrichment for work. In the community, Latheef has been working with college Muslim Student Association chapters at the local, state, and national levels for the past 13 years. His areas of focus have been leadership training, creating manuals on best practices, and facilitating networking among chapters. He completed a term as the chair of MSA National’s strategic planning committee.  Zahir hopes to continue to merge his activism with his training in organizational behavior and research methods. 

School Name: University of Houston

Sponsor: ISF

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahirlatheef/

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient