Fadumo Dayib, current Mason Fellow in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and 2016 Somalian presidential candidate, discusses her early childhood experiences in Kenya, life growing up in Finland, and her return to Somalia to work for the United Nations, in a recent article in the Harvard Gazette. From Somalia, Dayib's work with the UN took her to Nairobi, Fiji, and Liberia where she worked in health care and HIV prevention, until beginning a Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki in 2013. In the fall of 2014, Dayib arrived here in Cambridge to begin her studies at HKS. Dayib notes that, '“Coming here was really to see how far I could push the envelope. I’ve always wanted to see how far I could go even when people tell me it’s impossible to do...”'

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