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November 19, 2007
Isra Bhatty ’10 Selected as Rhodes Scholar
The Rhodes Trust announced on November 17 that Isra J. Bhatty ’10 has been selected as a 2008 Rhodes Scholar.
Bhatty graduated from The University of Chicago in 2006 with majors in economics and near eastern languages and literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a college junior and won many prizes for leadership and scholarship at The University of Chicago. Bhatty founded a tutoring program in Chicago, was an English-Urdu translator of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, led a Chicago coalition on criminal justice reform, and has worked closely with Chicago’s inner-city Muslim Action Network. She also founded and captained an intramural champion women’s football team and is a hip-hop artist and poet.
At Oxford she plans to pursue a M.Phil. in evidence-based social intervention, with a focus on programs for people of color, immigrants, and substance abusers. Bhatty is also looking forward to working with the country's South Asian and Muslim populations.
Bhatty graduated from The University of Chicago in 2006 with majors in economics and near eastern languages and literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a college junior and won many prizes for leadership and scholarship at The University of Chicago. Bhatty founded a tutoring program in Chicago, was an English-Urdu translator of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, led a Chicago coalition on criminal justice reform, and has worked closely with Chicago’s inner-city Muslim Action Network. She also founded and captained an intramural champion women’s football team and is a hip-hop artist and poet.
At Oxford she plans to pursue a M.Phil. in evidence-based social intervention, with a focus on programs for people of color, immigrants, and substance abusers. Bhatty is also looking forward to working with the country's South Asian and Muslim populations.
