About Me

My name is Taiyyaba Ahmed Qureshi. I was born in Ithaca, NY to Pakistani immigrants who soon found snowy upstate New York too cold for their blood and chose to raise me in the more temperate Raleigh, NC. My father was a professor of immunology and immunogenetics at North Carolina State University for more than a decade and is now a National Program Leader at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. My mother is a microbiologist and has taught me everything from the benefits of Lactobacillus reuteri to how to make spicy curries with homemade flatbread.

According to my father, I became "misguided" and went to "the other school" after I graduated from Athens Drive High School in 2003. At any rate, I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2007 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies. I am now a First Year JD Candidate at the University of North Carolina School of Law and will graduate in May 2010.

This website is dedicated to highlighting my academic, professional, extracurricular and community work. Where applicable, the resume-style bullets will be supplemented by more detailed prosaic explanations of the information provided. There may also be external links that connect you to organizations with which I have worked and projects to which I have contributed. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or concerns.