For Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who worked at the al-Haramain Foundation's Oregon office for a year before law school, a change in circumstances allowed him to reconsider his once-radical beliefs. While at al-Haramain, a nongovernmental organization with headquarters in Saudi Arabia that was later designated by the United States as a provider of "financial and material support to al-Qaida,"82 Gartenstein-Ross was surrounded by extremists and discouraged by friends from interacting with those outside the organization. In an environment in which it was difficult to challenge those espousing extremist views, Gartenstein-Ross became quite radical in his own right. After leaving al-Haramain to go to law school in New York, he began to question the belief system he had adopted during his time at al-Haramain, eventually rejecting it entirely.

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