Overview
Past Experience
During law school, Zena was a student associate at the Indiana University Non-Profit Legal Clinic, where she helped clients form new nonprofit entities, apply for tax-exempt status, and draft bylaws, articles of incorporation, and contracts. She also served as president of the Middle Eastern Law Students Association.
Personal Interests
Zena is passionate about teaching and mentoring the next generation. In her free time, she has volunteered as an instructor teaching civics to fifth graders and economics to high school seniors. She also helped teach business and commercial law to college students for three years prior to law school.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Indiana
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Education
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (online outreach editor) (2018)
Indiana University, Fort Wayne
B.S. in Business Economics and Public Policy, with highest distinction (2015)
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Guardianship hearings
- Nonprofit entity formation
- Indiana Legal Answers Virtual Legal Clinic
Professional Associations
- Allen County Bar Association
- Urban Land Institute, Indiana
Honors
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2019
- Indiana University — Cali Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing
- Indiana University — Cali Award for Excellence in Law and Economics
- Doermer School of Business Lawson Scholar of International Studies