Danya Shocair Reda graduated magna cum laude in 1999 from Brown University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1999-2000, Ms. Reda was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria, where she studied at the French Institute for Arabic Studies. She received a M.St. from Oxford University in Oriental Studies (Islamic Law and Philosophy) in 2003. In 2004, she received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an Article Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the BlackLetter Law Journal. After a year at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, she clerked for The Honorable Charles S. Haight of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.