Lawyer

Fresh out of Yale Law School, Shariful Khan’s immediate future is carefully mapped. For the next two years he will hold a prestigious Skadden Fellowship in public service law, litigating civil rights cases on behalf of children nationwide. He will then clerk at the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, and the Southern District of New York.

It is the purposefully charted path of a legal star on the rise, with an aim: serving those in need through law.

Already, as a law student, Shariful has: sued the US Air Force for discriminatory treatment of disabled veterans; co-founded an organization to guide underrepresented people into law school; and mentored first-generation and minority law students.