Muska Fazilat : Payne Fellowship
Muska Fazilat (’15 , Public Health) spent the first ten years of her life as a refugee in Peshawar, Pakistan. Her family received their visas to come to the United States and settled in Southern California. Muska is a first-generation college student and one of the few students to have received the top three most prestigious undergraduate fellowships at UC Berkeley: the Bergeron Scholar Fellowship for Women in STEM, the Haas Scholar Fellowship for undergraduate research, and the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize. Muska will be pursuing a master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.