Helping Build a Coalition of Educators in Austin
The 2020 Rather Prize Goes to Armin Salek for his Youth Justice Alliance Program.
Youth Justice Alliance founded by Armin Salek, works to develop legal curriculum and introduce it at schools across Texas. Legal education empowers students, engages students, and teaches them to serve effectively while developing crucial soft skills.
Pedram Salek, Co-Founder
Pedram is an alumnus of McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. His past experiences include building a number of businesses ranging from professional services to retail. Through both success and failure, Pedram has gained invaluable insight into business operations, management, strategy, product/software development, sales, financial planning, marketing, and HR. Having built and lead a number of successful companies, Pedram's focus now is helping other entrepreneurs and start-ups develop business plans, streamline operations, and implement systems needed to better market their products/services.
Armin Salek, JD, Co-Founder
Armin grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with majors in government and sociology. He then attended the University of Houston Law Center as a merit scholarship recipient. Armed with a strong toolkit of legal knowledge and skills, he decided to return to Austin and serve his home community. Armin has worked with a variety of legal clients spanning from providing legal representation to the most under-served communities, to the representation of international corporations while working with several leading law firms in the Houston area. His experience includes providing business immigration consultation and legal services, as well as supporting the establishment and recognition of legal entities ranging from C Corps to LLC structures.