Select Publications
Creative Nonfiction
Essays
Somali Communities Build Collective Power in the Face of Trump’s Attacks (Truthout, 2026)
From Somalia to south Oregon— How Basketball Reunites Civil War Survivors (Al Jazeera, 2024)
The Crack Down on the Stop Cop City Movement Is a Warning Sign (Teen Vogue, 2024)
National Islamophobia Strategy Is PR Stunt to Protect Biden’s Political Future (Truthout, 2024)
For Somali Immigrants, Trucking Life Echoes Traditional Nomadism (Atlas Obscura, 2023)
African People Bear the Weight of the US’s Failed War on Terror (Truthout, 2022)
Love Island’s First Black Winners: A Summer of Love and Protest (Slate, 2020)
Do Black Lives Matter in the Immigrant Rights Movement? (Al Jazeera, 2017)
A Child of Refugees on the Front Lines of the U.S. Border War (The Establishment, 2016)
When We Criminalize Students, African-American Kids Suffer (Pacific Standard, 2016)
Poetry
Childhood, Motherhood, Original Sin (Cutleaf Journal, Volume 5, Issue 22)
The Possessive Form, Debt (Feminist Formations, Volume 36, Issue 2)
Anthologies
