Background
Kiwi Danao Camara was born in Manila, Philippines, to Enrico Camara and Teresa Danao, both licensed physicians. He is a grandchild of the first summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, renowned cardiologist, Augusto Camara, M.D. of Iba, Zambales. At age one, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Camara attended the Punahou School. He wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age 11, which was published in the Hawai'i Journal of Medicine. At 16, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science summa cum laude from Hawaii Pacific University. He completed the program in two years and was recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance. The Philippines awarded him its Jose Rizal Certificate of Achievement while he was in college and later, in 2005, recognized him with a Presidential Commendation.
In 2001, Camara enrolled in Harvard Law School. There he received a John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics. He held the fellowship until September 2004, at which time he took a position as a law clerk for Judge Harris Hartz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Camara held a John M. Olin Fellowship for 2006–2007 and was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University School of Law. He was previously a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Stanford Law School and was briefly a Ph.D student in Economics at Stanford University.
Camara was a litigation associate at Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Anaipakos, P.C., a law firm in Houston, Texas before co-founding Camara & Sibley in 2009.
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