About Machmud

Hi! I'm a Stanford JD/MBA and coach admissions for both schools, as well as fellowship programs like Rhodes, Knight-Hennessy, and Schwarzman. More importantly, I'm also a first-generation immigrant from Uzbekistan and have been incredibly lucky to have lived out my dreams in some cool places since then. A metro Atlanta, Georgia native, I played baseball at Oberlin College, where I picked up the political bug and earned a Truman Scholarship for leadership in public service. After graduating, I was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and read for an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. I then worked for four years in a variety of political and public policy-focused roles, including on the Biden 2020 campaign's policy team and at the White House as part of the COVID Response team. I'm now at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School as a JD/MBA candidate & Knight-Hennessy Scholar and have spent my summers in corporate Big Law firms while also keeping a foot in public service as the Chief of Staff to a Georgia State Representative and Founder of Law School Democrats of America, a progressive voting-rights focused non profit. In my free time I'm golfing, reading, traveling with friends, and eating everything that gets in front of me.