Zahra Wakilzada (SFS’23, MSFS’25) walks with her mother in Healy Circle on a bright day in May. Behind them, engines hum and hammers clang on the steel pillars of a graduation tent on Healy Lawn.
In a few days, Wakilzada will receive her second diploma from Georgetown — a master’s in foreign service — marking a second first in her family after earning her bachelor’s in 2023.
It’s a moment her mother has dreamed of since Wakilzada was a little girl. Thinking about it makes her teary. All the sacrifice was worth it. A blue tint in her brown eyes glimmers. Fariha didn’t get to live out her dream. But her daughter is.
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