Name: Shima Rostami

Recipient Year: 2025

Major: JD

Description: Shima Rostami is a human rights and social justice activist who received her doctorate in Educational Leadership. Her doctoral study focused on ‘Developing Moral Education to Combat Human Trafficking.’ Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking (GAHT), a non-profit committed to educating communities and inspiring positive systemic change to end human trafficking. She is a member of the U.S. Attorney’s Human Trafficking and Hate Crime Task Forces of Eastern District of Missouri. In a 2022 order, the Supreme Court of Missouri has appointed Dr. Rostami as a member of the Combating Human Trafficking and Domestics Violence Commission.

School Name: IU Maurer School of Law

Sponsor: David Dobbins Memorial Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shima-rostami