A Rutgers graduate and two current seniors were selected as the University’s first Schwarzman Scholars, a global program where students are educated about leadership while pursuing a master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in China…
Read MoreThree years ago: I was 18-years-old, fresh out of High School and had no idea the monumental impact politics had on day-to-day life.
Read MoreThe moment when Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, claimed at a rally that he saw “thousands and thousands" of people in Jersey City cheering during the 9/11 attacks is seared into Mussab Ali's memory.
Read MoreA call to action from students, joined by several members of Jersey City’s City Council, who all say they are fed up with gun violence and what they describe as “pick and choose” decisions in the media that dictate what high profile, shootings – in downtown, for example - make headlines, while others are ignored.
Read MoreA 17-year-old Liberty High School student has joined the Jersey City school board as the board's first "voice for the students."
Read MoreAmbitious and determined, 20-year-old Mussab Ali wants to be a powerful voice for students as the youngest member ever elected to the Jersey City school board.
"I think it's important to get younger people involved," he said. "And especially people that can look at me and say, hey if he can do it, I can do it too."
Mussab Ali, a Rutgers-Newark student who was named a Truman Scholar last year, was sworn in to his one-year term last night by Passaic County's first Muslim freeholder, Assad Akhter.
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