I am passionate about humanity, legacy and making the world a more equitable place. That is why I work at the intersection of history, economics, and policy because power does not appear out of nowhere. It accumulates over time. Markets, institutions, and narratives all carry memory. If you want to shape the future, you need to understand where systems came from, who built them, and who they were built to serve.
 
I was born in Sudan, raised across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. I come from a family rooted in scholarship and preservation. My grandfather founded one of Sudan’s first national libraries in Kassala, from a generation of Sufi scholars. That is why history was never academic to me. It shaped how people governed, traded, healed, and survived. That foundation informs everything I do today.​
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My professional career include work with governments and multilateral institutions on regional strategy across Africa. Previously, I established the private sector engagement framework at UNICEF in Sudan, building corporate and diaspora partnerships to support education, health, and economic development at scale.

My career began on the frontlines. As a Peace Corps community practitioner in rural Tanzania, I saw how exclusion from capital, infrastructure, and opportunity limits communities long before policy reaches them. That experience led me to found Inua Naturals, a social enterprise focused on women farmers and artisans, and later to roles across the United Nations systems, and development finance ecosystems. Across my professional and independent work, I have focused on systems thinking and the connections between policy, markets, history and people.

I hold a Master's in Health Policy, Finance and Economics from the University of New England, a Bachelor of Science from the University of Mary Washington, and African Studies at Georgetown University and University of Dar es Salaam. As well as Executive Education from Harvard University.

I am fluent in English, Arabic, and Swahili, with functional French. With travel to more than 50 countries, I enjoy bringing a grounded, cross-regional perspective to everything I build. My work connects past and future, policy and people, capital and culture. I focus on systems thinking and building solutions that last because they depend on our collective future.


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