Nabiha Syed

Nabiha Syed is a Knight Law and Media Scholar and a student fellow of the Information Society Project. Through these programs, she co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum. She is also a member of the Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security after 9/11 Clinic and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project. She is a submissions editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review and the senior editor of its forthcoming online magazine, Inter Alia, as well as a chair of the Muslim Law Students’ Association. Syed has been elected to serve as a student class representative for all three of her years at Yale Law School. She earned a B.A. with high honors in International Relations and Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. There she received the Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Thesis Award and the Second Decade Society Award for student leadership. She was also named a Ripon-Clinger Scholar. While at Johns Hopkins, Syed wrote her first book, Replicating Dreams, on Grameen-style microfinance in Pakistan.