Bashair Ahmed is the Executive Director of Shabaka Social Enterprise, a platform for migrant and diaspora engagement in development and humanitarian action. Concurrently, Bashair is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sussex, UK, conducting research on activism among second generation diasporas (children of migrants) from the Horn of Africa, focusing on those who were born or raised abroad and based in London and Washington, D.C. Bashair previously worked for various international development and humanitarian organisations focusing on fragile and conflict affected countries.