Jason is deferred from Shearman & Sterling LLP, which he will join as a first-year associate next fall. During his deferral, Jason has begun to study Arabic, in addition to taking lessons in juggling, the banjo, and various arts. Also during this time, he has worked as a staff member for a local election campaign; apprenticed in a bakery; volunteered for BRAC, a microfinance organization; and interned for Seeds of Africa, an education and community development organization aimed at increasing opportunities for academically-motivated but underprivileged youths in Africa.
Jason is a recent graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was the Clifford Chance AnBryce Scholar. While at NYU, Jason served as an Article Selection Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change, where he endeavored to make sure that strong, substantive scholarship in the public interest made its way into the discourse about the rights and needs of the underprivileged and disenfranchised, and as co-chair of OUTLaw, the law school's LGBT student organization. Jason also participated in MOKA, the school's annual multicultural performance, Le Table Française, the school's French language discussion group, the Asian American Jurisprudence Reading Group, and R.I.S.E., a foster youth mentoring organization, which he also helped to found.