Scholarships
Scholarships Supporting the Next Generation of IP and Innovation Leaders
The School of Law is proud to offer two distinguished scholarships for students pursuing careers at the intersection of law, technology and innovation. The Intellectual Property and Innovation Scholarship stands as the school’s highest honor for students interested in intellectual property, technology, privacy and related fields. Complementing this award, the Lanza First-Generation Scholarship Fund supports one or more first-generation students in the full-time or part-time JD programs who have demonstrated a commitment to intellectual property, data privacy, digital rights, digital human rights, or related areas.
Welcome Fall 2026 Intellectual Property and Innovation Scholars
Sumaiya Hassan ’29 graduated from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business with a degree in management information systems. She then worked as an AI product manager at Procter & Gamble and most recently as a data privacy legal intern at the National Breast Cancer Foundation. She specialized in leading product use-cases involving corporate compliance for global chemical regulations and ensuring ethical product design for consumer facing digital applications at P&G. Additionally, she interned in tech strategy space for GM Financial, the University of Texas System and local startups in Texas.
Congratulations 2026–2027 Lanza First-Generation Scholarship Fund Recipients
Nana Afua Asamoah ’28 is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a BA in legal studies with a concentration in policy and negotiation. In fall 2026, she enrolled in Northeastern Law’s Intellectual Property Law Clinic and plans to use her knowledge of intellectual property to advocate for and inform Black creators of their property rights within creation.
Nadir Hamid ’27 works at the intersection of law, technology and business. At Northeastern, he served as co-chair of the Intellectual Property Law Society. He is now a student attorney in the school’s Intellectual Property Law Clinic and a member of the Boston Intellectual Property Inn of Court. He previously worked at Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, supporting venture financings and technology licensing matters, and at Safari Technologies, a fintech company, on privacy, information security and commercial legal issues. With Professor Hilary Robinson, he received a seed grant from Northeastern University’s Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy. Their project examines how the legal and technical design of digital platforms shapes users’ control over their data and explores more user-centered alternatives.