Name: Mohamed Al-Hendy

Recipient Year: 2015

Major: Law

Description: Mohamed Al-Hendy graduated the University of Texas School of Law in 2017 with honors. He currently works in commercial litigation.Mohamed graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2013 with a double major in Political Science and Medicine, Health and Society. He went on to work as a first-grade teacher in Houston, as a corps member in Teach for America, before enrolling at Texas Law. He has also interned for the White House Domestic Policy Council and Freedom House.While in law school, Mohamed worked with the Juvenile Lifers Project at Texas Law, and was a Brumley NextGen Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He spent his law school summers with Hunton & Williams and Capital One’s in-house legal team, and interned for the Honorable Lee Yeakel, District Judge for the Western District of Texas, in his third year.

School Name: UT Austin

Sponsor: Ghulam and Arifa Azad Family Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-al-hendy-85887746/