Brandon Baumbach
Leadership Foundation
Lisa Cooper
Leadership Foundation
Founder of Leadership Foundation , she works a lot with Somalis and Diversity in NGOS, managing , marketing and project development . Lisa has Leadership, Integration, Diversity, Managing, Marketing and Project Development. Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Pennsylvania State University. Masters of Business Administration with - Honors from the University of Oslo. 18 years management experience in both the public and private sectors. 10 years of top management experience in telecommunications and defense communications.
Twenty years of on-site international experience in the US, Norway.
Lisa started NORSOMBRO the brigde building between somalis and norwegisans in Norway and she has done a lot, like NSYS 2012.
Coming with more than two years of experience working within and for the Somali community in Minneapolis and Nordic Somali Youth Summit in 2012, Brandon is a perfect fit for the task ahead. In addition to the Summit itself, Brandon will be furthering the mission of Leadership Foundation by assisting on the broader diversity work of the Foundation. Originally from North Dakota, USA, he holds a Masters of Public Policy and is a current Fulbright Fellow conducting research on immigration policy in Oslo, Norway.
A serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and philanthropist is one of many titles this Swedish-Somali 28 year old can call himself. He is a MBA degree holder from Stockholm University School of Business. Has sat in the board of four companies and been CEO of two. Zakaria. Some of the awards Zakaria has won has been with a startup that was voted one of the hottest startups in Sweden 2012 by Internetworld. Also he won Arctic15 Best New Recruit Category in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Zakaria is a member of YEOS-Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden, a network of Sweden's foremost young entrepreneurs and was also the chairman and sits on the board of the charity organization SAVE (Somali Awareness Through Volunteering and Education). He also set up an Accelerator Program that focuses connecting aspiring entrepreneurs in developing countries with global expertise.
Born in Somalia, living in Sweden since the age of 1½. Finished school in Stockholm but then decided to explore the world outside Sweden and moved to UK to study medicine for five years. During university studies she had the opportunity to travel to Kenya with the charity group Kenyan Orphan Project (KOP), after a year of fundraising. This experience opened her eyes when she saw poverty and inequality. She decided that she wanted to give fellow Somalis the same opportunity but in Somalia. To be able to contribute and share your skills and knowledge to the war torn country of my parents. That is when she decided to initiate the journey of SAVE - Somali Awareness through Volunteering and Education. An organization to use as a platform for like minded educated Swede-Somalis that had the passion and interest to contribute to Somalia and Somalis in their community. Within a few years they got involved in various projects in Somalia such as Ramadan Relief project and Gift of Education. They also engaged our community by arranging various inspirational nights where we talked about education by using their own human resource. Now, she work as a doctor in Eskilstuna where currently live and hoping in continuing with my contribution to both communities, Sweden and to Somalia.
Ahmed Abdirahman
Spånga
The Team
JIhan Mohamed
S.A.V.E
Currently lives south of Sweden (malmö). She is a member of Somali Nordic Team that was part of international visitors program, a delegation from Nordic countries that went to study Somali community experience in three states in order to exchange ideas future collaboration. She is Somali Canadian with endless experience in working with divers’ communities and community issues and social justice. She has worked with Somali NGOs with regards to youth issues. Lead a project for prevention and opinion building of narcotic also assisted other projects that dealt with youth empowerment. Developed various plan in reaching out to young girls and creating space for them to Somali NGO’s, where she created social activities. Received Bachelor of Social Science on International Migration and Ethnic Relation and currently doing her Master on Public Health.
Ahmed Abdirahman was born in the Civil War, Mogadishu, Somalia. His family was reunited with his father in Sweden in 1998 after 10 years of separation because of the clan and the civil strife that prevented communication. Ahmed came directly from Arlanda to Tensta, Stockholm, at the age of thirteen years as illiterate and as a refugee. He attended schools in the suburbs of Tensta & Hjulsta. During his last semester at Ross Tensta Gymnasium Ahmed won a four-day trip to New
York City to present his senior project at the Ross School, East Hampton, NY. There he met Mrs. Courtney Ross, founder of the prestigious private school Ross School who offered him a summer internship and later a full scholarship to the university.
Ahmed studied BA, International Studies at Marymount. Manhattan College, NY, and is currently about to finish his MA, International Humanitarian Action at Fordham University, NY.
During his MA studies Ahmed was offered to work as an intern for the peacebuilding organization Interpeace (founded & partner to UN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Ahmed worked to establish an office in Stockholm,
Interpeace Sweden. In July 2012 Interpeace’s Regional Office in Nairobi recruited Ahmed to fill a program coordinator/program director position in Mogadishu, Somalia through its national partner, the Centre for Research & Dialogue. After a careful consideration Ahmed left the mission because of the high risk to his life and returned to Stockholm. With nearly 7 years of experiences abroad and network, Ahmed currently works for
Spånga-Tensta District Administration as a Project Leader for Collaboration & External Relations.
Zakaria Hersi
S.A.V.E
Muna Mohamud
Women2Women