University of Michigan Law School's Quadrangle Features Brenda Abdelall, President of Bridge Strategies LLC

The University of Michigan Law School published a full page feature on Bridge Strategies LLC's President, Brenda Abdelall.  

"As varied as Brenda Abdelall’s life experiences are, a pattern emerges—her work circles around social justice for groups and individuals denied rights by greater society.

Abdelall, ’05, is a U-M alumna twice over: She graduated with distinction as an undergraduate double major in Arabic and political science, and then went on to law school, where she was an editor of the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and a founding board member of MENALSA, the Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association. Now based in Washington, D.C., she is founder and president of consulting firm Bridge Strategies LLC.

The child of Egyptian immigrants, Abdelall’s family moved from Taylor, Michigan, to Ann Arbor, seeking a more diverse community. In the 1990s, the family hosted a Bosnian refugee. The experience, Abdelall says, “opened my eyes to what was happening in the world beyond Ann Arbor. That was my first exposure to the importance of global awareness.”

A national tragedy, the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, only reinforced this.

Read more here: https://quadrangle.law.umich.edu/fall2017/class-notes/from-newsweeks-cover-to-the-front-lines-of-social-justice/