Mohamed Abubakr is the President of AMEL, the African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, a Washington DC based nonprofit with a mission to mobilize, empower, and unite millennial leaders and activists from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) to build resilient, inclusive societies that are free from discrimination, persecution, and violent coercion, and to advocate for policies in support of these goals. Mr. Abubakr is a Sudanese human rights activist and peacemaker with a decade and a half of civil society experience. Since high school, he has founded and led organizations and initiatives focused on humanitarian, human rights, youth empowerment and peace programs across the MEA including in Darfur, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and beyond. He has also documented, reported and mobilized against human rights abuses across MEA, and since arriving in the United States has become a sought-after voice at the State Department and in Congress concerning policy and human rights issues in the region. Attorney Becki Young originally secured an O-1 visa for Mr. Abubakr to travel to the U.S. for a speaking tour with stops including the U.S. State Department, U.S. Institute for Peace, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, SAIS, Stanford University, the United Nations, the Woodrow Wilson Center, UC Berkley, and the American Jewish Committee. Ultimately, Attorney Young worked with Mr. Abubaker to obtain a green card in the extraordinary ability category, so he could continue his important human rights work from the United States.