🌙🌚 aka Chand Raat aka Night of the Moon! It is the party for the moon sighting which marks the end of #Ramadan. Tomorrow morning we turn to a day of #Eid celebrations. Quiet edition this year at home as everyone seems to be battling 🤧. But had delicious food and lots of memories of the amazing party last year hosted by Safiya Ghori-Ahmad. We will try to amdinister henna on our own, but cannot hope to compete with Safiya’s henna game. Check below for the 🔥 from last year. It is amazing how times have progressed. #ChandRaat started at the bottom and now it’s here: https://lnkd.in/eshqyy82

Had a wonderful #iftar at Georgetown University Law Center. Thank you to the amazing MLSA for hosting this first-ever Alumni iftar. And I loved the halal Chinese food 😋 It was so wonderful to connect with current students and alumni from across so many class years including Aiysha Hussain, Erum Mirza, Syma Ahmad Siddiqui, and Lala R. Qadir Special shout outs to Humza Yousuf, LAILA AHMED, Azam Chaudry, Mohammad Shazeb, and my Georgetown Law RISE crew there. I got to throw a Simpsons reference into my remarks which was exciting for law school me who was more focused on the Simpsons than the law.

So proud of the 🐐, Professor Erin Carroll. It took incredible courage to jump from the security of BigLaw in Cali to a one-year contract teaching in D.C. But you did it and CRUSHED it. Georgetown University Law Center is so lucky to lock this down 4 LIFE! One of my interns summed it up best: she said Professor Carroll cared as much about making her the best lawyer she could be as she did about her well being during the 1L grind.

So proud of you, Vicka Heidt! Profesor/AUSA Olivia Hinerfeld and I were so lucky to have you as a student. You are an absolute ⭐️. Get to an AFC Richmond game 😂 #believe

Thanks to the SPOKES team from The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 🏃♀️ (or should I say 🚴♀️) back our science fair for incarcerated students in D.C. Thanks to our #reentry fellow Mariam Sayeed, we expanded to two facilities this year. Started with Tab Burnett and Tarketa Williams at the D.C. Jail and then headed over to the DC Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) (Juvenile Detention Facility) where we were welcomed by Director Trey Stanback, Justin Williams, Patti Cleaver MSSA LSW, OH, PA, MD, Superintedent Ernest Waiters, Jr, Adrian Dhanaraj, Dr. Japheth Claude, Yajaira Recinos, and so many more! The amazing MIT undergrads (a few who literally graduated less than 72 hours prior) are biking across the country to share #steameducation to underserved communities. Kudos to the dream team— Duha Syar, Joy Ma, Lucy Nester, Katherine Caol Guo, Audrey Gatta, Andrew Doan, and Vinícius Armelin—for making the DOC & DYRS students a priority. The SPOKES team’s brilliance is only surpassed by their humanity. You can read the full story about their day (flat 🛞 and all) in their blog: https://lnkd.in/gzn9xycx. And final 📣shoutouts to Professor Vanita "Saleema" Snow, Professor Joshua Miller, and my amazing interns (Amanda Wang, Daniel Webster, Sara Brizio, & Giancarlo Vargas), who were running experiments and connecting with the students. It was a really special day!

Ramadan Mubarak 🌙 🎉 Already had my first Fasting 🧠 moment today when I was looking for a jacket with my keys in it… that I was wearing. 🤦🏽♂️ Looking forward to a month of self reflection and Nutella-stuffed dates 🤤 thanks to the genius of Safiya Ghori-Ahmad. #ramadan #ramadankareem

Rest In Peace Takeoff. Still cannot believe the news. When I left DOJ, my OOO message was a link to my favorite clip on the internet: Migos Carpool Karaokee. Whenever I’m down, I will watch this. But today, it broke me. Still, I hope you will watch it to see the genius at work and how art/song can bridge differences. To quote another favorite—who is also gone too soon—“Cause all the legends seem to die out. . . . All legends fall in the making.” https://lnkd.in/dGZ-KkNW

That’s my 🦸🏽♀️. Congrats Juvaria Khan. 👏🏽 This award is so well deserved. The Appellate Project (TAP) is changing the clerkship game. Thank you for that.

Thanks to Emily Davies and Carolyn Van Houten at the The Washington Post for this wonderful write up about the #graduation ceremony we held at the D.C. Jail for our Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brave Behind Bars #Scholars. Brave Behind Bars is a free introductory computer science and career-readiness program for incarcerated people. #reentry We had representatives from Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University, Vera Institute of Justice, WilmerHale, and other join for the celebration. And most importantly, my mom was there for it 🤣 My mom told the graduates that she was more proud of them than she was of me, and I couldn't agree with her more! The scholars final presentations will soon be live on BraveBehindBars.com. I felt like I was looking at the #matrix when they were showing us the coding behind their website. Thanks to Martin Nisser, Marisa Gaetz, and Emily Harburg, Ph.D. for creating this program. They were supported by an amazing team of PhD candidates (including Seun Araromi, Bilkit Githinji, and Faraz Faruqi) who, along with them, taught virtual classes. None of this could have happened without the amazing team at the D.C. Jail: Dr. Amy Lopez, Tabitha Burnett, Tarketa Williams, Shonell Reed, Borden Barrows, and many others. And yes, my orange jacket was on purpose. I wanted the graduates to see that the differences between me and them were smaller than they might seem. And 🍊 is my favorite color. 😎 https://lnkd.in/e5P5itUb