; (6) noted academics and researchers like Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang, professor and former chairman of the African Studies Department at Howard University, Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, former Chief of Neurosurgery at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institute of Health, Dr. Intisar A. Rabb, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program, and Dalia Mogahed, Obama administration appointee to the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Director of Research at Institute for Social Policy and Understanding; (7) Olympic medalists like boxer Muhammad Ali, track and field athlete Dalilah Muhammad, and fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad; (8) professional athletes like basketball players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille O’Neal, football players like Muhammad Wilkerson, Ameer Abdullah, brothers Husain and Hamza Abdullah, and two-time world heavyweight champion Hasim Shariff Rahman; (9) religious leaders like African-American Muslim imam, civil rights activist, and reformer Hajj Malik El Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X, and Imam Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad), referred to by many as America’s Imam, an African-American Muslim leader and theologian who worked tirelessly to unite the diverse Muslim community and nation, who, in 1992, was the first American Muslim to deliver the invocation for the United States Senate; (10) public servants like Dr. Ahmed Hassan Zewail, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and was a Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology member, former Deputy Director of the United States National Security Council and Nixon administration advisor Dr. Robert (Farooq) D. Crane, and Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003–2005, Iraq from 2005–2007, and United Nations from 2007–2009