Nimco Ismail
Nimco Ahmed Ismail was part of the first class of Abaarso School. She graduated in 2013 and received a full scholarship to Oberlin College. Nimco has participated in a wide range of activities during her time at Oberlin including Student Senate and the Student Honour Committee. After graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in Politics in 2017, she helped found Barwaaqo, an all-women’s teachers college. In 2019, she left Barwaaqo University to pursue a law degree at the University of Stirling’s Law School in Scotland and then worked at the Somaliland Ministry of Planning and National Development as part of the team preparing the third National Development Plan. Nimo is the first Abaarso School alum to serve in the organization’s senior management.