Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin B.A., summa cum laude, 2018
    • Distinguished honors in Plan II
    • Highest honors in Government and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2021
    • Editor, Harvard Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
    • Dean’s Scholar Distinction in Criminal Justice Institute: Defense Theory and Practice

Clerkships

  • Judge James Andrew Wynn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2023-2024

Admitted

  • 2024, District of Columbia
  • 2023, New York

Rund Khayyat joined Kellogg Hansen as an associate in 2024.

Rund joined the firm as an associate in 2022, following a civil rights litigation fellowship with the AARP Foundation Litigation. She returned to the firm as an associate in 2024, following a clerkship with Judge James Andrew Wynn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Rund earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Editor of the Harvard Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Rund received her B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts Honors, Government, and Middle Eastern Studies from The University of Texas at Austin.