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Zamzam Ibrahim

Zamzam Ibrahim

President of the National Union of Students


Zamzam Ibrahim is a student politician who was the President of the UK National Union of Students (NUS) from 2019 to 2020.[1] She is also the President and a founding trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability.[2] She succeeded Shakira Martin. She was formerly the NUS Vice President of Society & Citizenship.[3] This followed her term as Salford Students' Union President 2017-2018 and Vice-President of Business and Law 2015–2016.[4] Before she was a full-time officer at NUS, she served on the National Executive Committee for two years.[5] She is now the Vice-President of the European students union.

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Early life and career

Zamzam was born in Sweden in 1994 and is Somali, but moved to Greater Manchester at an early age.[6] She is fluent in Swedish, Somali and English.[citation needed] Before becoming an elected officer at NUS, Zamzam worked as a fundraiser for Penny Appeal, an interpreter for Pearl Linguistics Ltd, a radio presenter at ALLFM 96.9 and a project worker at Bolton Solidarity Community Association.[citation needed] She has been a vocal advocate against FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).[citation needed] She went to the University of Salford and gained a first class degree in Accounting & Finance.[citation needed] During her time at University she was President of the Somali society and was in multiple other societies such as TedX and Business.[citation needed] She has volunteered for organisations such as Human Appeal.[citation needed]

Presidency of NUS

Ibrahim took office on 1 July 2019.[7] During her term as President she has headed up multiple campaigns including the drive to get young people registered to vote in the 2019 General Election,[8] the campaign for a National Education Service[9] and leading the Teach the Future Campaign.[10]

She was succeeded by Larissa Kennedy in July 2020.[11]


References

  1. "Zamzam Ibrahim elected NUS national president". TES. 9 April 2019.
  2. "SOS-UK Our background". sustainability.nus.org.uk.
  3. Staufenberg, Jess (12 November 2019). "Profile: Zamzam Ibrahim". FE Week.
  4. "Zamzam Ibrahim elected as NUS president". The Independent. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.

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