5th Annual Harvard Muslim Alumni Dinner

Harvard Muslim Alumni (HUMA) is pleased to announce its 5th annual dinner, scheduled for Saturday, April 11th, 2015 from 5:30-8:30pm at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA.

All Harvard affiliates (alumni, students, faculty, etc) and family are invited.

Come reconnect with old friends and meet other Harvard Muslims! The annual dinner brings HUMA members from across the globe to a single venue, building a strong Harvard Muslim community to further HUMA's long-term mission: facilitating professional networking and mentoring, supporting the Muslim community on campus, helping students access Harvard, etc.

Sameera Fazili will give the keynote address this year.

Agenda:

Reception & Mixer: 5:30pm-6:30pm

Dinner: 6:30pm-8:30pm

Note that this is a ticketed event and space is limited, so please buy tickets quickly. Free for children under 12. See you at the event!!

About the keynote speaker:

Sameera Fazili has spent her career working in domestic and international economic development, with a focus on inclusive economic growth and social entrepreneurship. She recently stepped down from her position as a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House's National Economic Council, where she covered retirement, consumer finance, and community and urban development policy. Prior to that she worked at the Treasury Department, first designing domestic policies to support the economic recovery in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and then as a Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs. In International Affairs, she worked closely on the European financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act reforms, the G-20 and G-7, and on the World Bank and IMF. Before her time in government, she was a clinical lecturer at the Yale Law School, where she led a clinical program on domestic and international community development. Her work in finance has spanned retail services, small business, housing, and microfinance. Internationally she has worked in both South Asia and the Middle East. She received her law degree from Yale Law School and her B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College. She is also a proud past president of the Harvard Islamic Society. She and her husband now reside in Atlanta, Georgia with their two sons Zain and Rumi