Noorain Khan

Noorain Khan, a political science, religious studies and women, gender and sexuality studies major from Grand Rapids, Mich., graduated from Rice University in 2006. She assisted in research on secularism in Iran at the Middle East Institute in summer 2004. She presented the results of her research, “Reforming Iran: Trends and Prospects for Islamic Democracy, Religiosity and Shiite Identity,” at the Baker Institute in August 2004. Khan had also assisted the Energy Forum as a student research intern in 2003, and was recommended for participation in the program by Sarah Clarke of Amnesty International. Khan was a Rhodes scholar studying veiling and Arab women in the West at the University of Oxford in 2006 and was awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship and Rice University Wagoner Scholarship in 2008. She received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship in 2008 to support study at Yale University Law School. In summer 2008, she interned at Google, and in summer 2009, at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.