Name: Omar S Rashad

Recipient Year: 2021

Description: Omar Rashad is a California-based journalist reporting on government accountability, higher education, housing and state legislation. He has held the role of metro reporting intern at the San Francisco Chronicle covering the Bay Area. He previously covered higher education as a reporting fellow for the CalMatters College Journalism Network. While a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, he was the data and investigations editor at its student-run newspaper Mustang News.

School Name: California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Major: Journalism

Sponsor: Abdul Sattar Rydhan Memorial Scholarship