{"id":12067,"date":"2017-05-26T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:15:07","slug":"guled-ibrahims-journey-from-somalia-to-australia-via-mitchell-hamline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/26\/guled-ibrahims-journey-from-somalia-to-australia-via-mitchell-hamline\/","title":{"rendered":"Guled Ibrahim’s journey from Somalia to Australia via Mitchell Hamline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When Guled Ibrahim \u201916 <\/strong>came\u00a0to the U.S. as a refugee with his family over a decade ago, other students in his junior class at St. Louis Park High School were deciding which colleges to attend.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim, who was born in Somalia but came\u00a0to Minnesota from Kenya, wasn\u2019t quite ready for that. First he had to learn English and decipher American culture. And because it was winter when he arrived, Ibrahim even had to master the finer points of safely walking Minnesota\u2019s icy landscape.<\/p>\n

He was a fast learner. While taking his regular high school courses, he was also enrolled in English language classes on evenings and weekends. After graduating from high school, he earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities\u00ad.<\/p>\n

In 2013 Ibrahim started law school at Mitchell Hamline predecessor William Mitchell College of Law. While working toward his J.D., Ibrahim studied abroad in the school\u2019s London Program, earned a Dispute Resolution Certificate, completed clerkships at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office, and earned an international MBA from BPP University Business School in London. Ibrahim\u00a0also became a\u00a0Benjamin B. Ferencz Fellow in Human Rights and Law with World Without Genocide<\/a> at Mitchell Hamline in 2014, where he focused on human rights and participated in the International Criminal Court\u2019s annual meeting in The Hague in 2015. In 2016, Ibrahim represented both the U.S. and Somalia at the One Young World Summit in Canada.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim took the bar exam in February, then a few days later, left for Australia. That\u2019s because he was chosen for a prestigious Peace Fellowship through Rotary International. Ibrahim will spend 16 months at the University of Queensland Australia, where he\u2019ll work toward a Master\u2019s of International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to combine my legal education and the Rotary Peace Fellowship to get involved with peace and conflict resolution efforts in Africa,\u201d he said. \u201cDiplomacy, peacebuilding, and respect for the rule of law are three areas where I want to be involved in coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minnesota-based Bush Foundation recently selected Ibrahim to participate in multiple leadership conferences this summer and fall. He’ll attend the MCON conference in Washington, D.C., the Social Innovation Summit in Chicago, and the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.<\/p>\n

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When Guled Ibrahim \u201916 came\u00a0to the U.S. as a refugee with his family over a decade ago, other students in his junior class at St. Louis Park High School were deciding which colleges to attend. Ibrahim, who was born in Somalia but came\u00a0to Minnesota from Kenya, wasn\u2019t quite ready for that. First he had to … <\/p>\n

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