2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Recipients

Zain Lakhani: My Secret Identity Zain is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. A thinker, explorer, and hard worker are all words that encompass who I am. I owe this identity to my scouting experiences, starting […]

Sasan Lotfi: The Journey of My Identity Sasan is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Eighteen years is not that much at first glance, but it has been long enough to challenge my strength and patience

Mykal White: Labels Mykal is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. My name is Mykal, not me-kal nor michael, but Mykal. Like the rest of my family, I grew up in the Big Eazy or New

Nabeeha Asim: Human Being Nabeeha is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Definitions are funny. They give you the phonetics, the parts of speech, examples when used in a sentence, maybe even synonyms and antonyms. However,

Safia Mohamed: I Deserve My Love and Affection Safia is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Identity! How do I identify myself? What is identity even? As a Muslim Somali girl growing up, my identity was

Farzana Ahmed: My Path to Representing and Encouraging Diversity in the Legal Field Farzana is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Finally on my own. I began my journey of finding myself and understanding who I

Aliah Zewail: Lava Lamp Aliah is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. As a child, I thought my family was famous. With a confined six-year-old perspective, there was no other explanation as to why strangers would