Hi, I’m Ikram! To get to know me as a person - is to know my many names and their meanings. Ikram - honor, hospitality and generosity Deqa - humble and bringer of enough happiness Janice - nickname coming from genius Dalia - staying graceful and remaining kind Not only do these names that I have been given, describe me perfectly - but for myself I would say that I’m a lover of nature and adventure; but I’m also a woman who is fearless when going after her dreams and also dreams of changing the world for the better, one year at a time. To understand me best - In my early twenties, I moved to Spain and Saudi Arabia - without ever knowing the place or anyone there. Just decided, packed my things, bought my ticket and moved with what little I had saved to make it on my own, out in the world. A little wild, yes, I know. But also the best experiences of my life and definitely the places that have made me into the woman I’m now in my mid-30s. And even though it sounds a little crazy and very scary - that has somehow always been my story - I always had the spirit of being able to just pack up and move without feeling any real attachment to the place where I grew up and lived. And since it’s unexplainable to myself - I attribute it to being Somali and my nomadic genes that run deep within. And because of my Somali genes, and since I was displaced as a child due to the civil war - I have also always dreamed of and plan on one day opening an orphanage to give back to the generations that have had it worse.