Ayaan Siddiqui is a freshman at Vanderbilt University from Arizona. Ayaan has been involved as a representative and state engagement liaison to ZeroHour, The Borgen Project, and ImproveTheDreamwhere he has lobbied government offices to advocate for climate justice, increased USAID to severely impoverished communities, and immigration reform respectively. He has worked to help introduce two bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate supporting immigration reform for documented dreamers. Ayaan has delivered oral arguments surrounding Fourth Amendment search and seizure as Petitioner through Torres v. Madridin front of the Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General and judges from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as being invited to meet with the full panel of the Arizona Supreme Court. Through his appointment as a National Youth Council Member, he has given opening remarks at the State of the World’s Children Report on mental health.

American Academy President Laurie Patton to Receive Concordia’s 2026 Leadership Award for Civil Society
The Concordia Leadership Council is proud to announce Dr. Laurie L. Patton, President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as the second of three recipients of the 2026

