Ruhma Khawaja is a member of the Class of 2024 who is concentrating in International and Public Affairs on the Policy and Governance track and is pursuing the Engaged Scholarship Certificate with a focus on Race and the Criminal Justice System. Ruhma is a first-generation student from Oswego, NY, and she is a pre-law student aiming to pursue civil rights and immigration law. She also has a passion for criminal justice reform, and she has conducted research to explore the historical criminalization of individuals of color as well as how this criminalization is promoted through media such as true crime. Ruhma also has been a member of the Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice, through which she works with immigration attorneys every semester to provide pro bono legal services to asylum seekers. After spending a semester doing the Brown in Washington program, she has been involved with the new Brown University chapter of the Stop Torture RI Coalition to advocate against solitary confinement. Her other campus involvement includes being on the executive boards for First-Gens@Brown and the Brown Women's Pre-Law Association. She also spends her fall semester working with Notable Narratives as a college essay mentor to first-generation/low income high school seniors around the world.