My parents relocated to the US from Uganda when I was 2 years old, and I grew up in NJ.  My dad is Muslim and my mom comes from a Catholic family and converted to Islam.  Family and community have been something ingrained in my upbringing.  I come from a family where we truly lived out the African proverb, “It takes a village..”  my parents did their best with giving myself and my 3 siblings a great education and along the way, we always went to community activities where my parents volunteered to give the same skills they taught us to kids in our Ugandan and Muslim communities.  I really began to truly understand the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”  I was surrounded with examples of how my parents did their best to live this out in a new country.  After graduating with degrees in engineering, I have been working in various companies for several years, and now work remotely in a program management role in the tech industry.  I am also a youth and parenting coach part time.