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...Shehabuddin had little trouble adjusting to her "second choice," and, even at a university that prides itself on the diversity of its student body, Shehabuddin has found a way to stand...
Little wonder, then, that Shehabuddin has directed her attention homeward whenever possible. She spent last summer working for an organization that gives loans to the landless in Bangladesh. The organization has helped 800 thousand people, she says, but 50 million landless people remain. She wrote her senior thesis in the Social Studies Department on the struggles of women to take control of their economic destiny...
...process, Shehabuddin learned much about the plight of her homeland. "You get a sense of what you have and what 50 million people don't," Shehabuddin says of her experience. "And you feel the responsibility...
Back on campus, Shehabuddin helped organize the relief effort that sent donations from Harvard students to her flood-stricken nation...
...Shehabuddin has not been afraid to take up more controversial causes, and this fall, she actively opposed the War in the Gulf. Shehabuddin says she was particularly angry that so few students on campus seemed to "care about those Iraqis during the war because they are just Arabs...