Fleeing Somalia in 1992 with her family, Ibrahim sacrificed a year of her childhood in refugee camps in Kenya.
It's the same center that Ibrahim -- more than two decades later -- now runs, at a time when the nation's refugee resettlement efforts have eroded under White House pressure.
Still, she looks upon refugee children who come to the facility with the same hope she once felt as a young patient.
"There are millions of refugees right now who are not being given the opportunities that I have been given.
As a Somali refugee who wore hijab, the Islamic headscarf, Ibrahim saw no one who looked like her in her field.
Today, Ibrahim directs the clinic and cares for patients who are often newly arrived or previously resettled refugees and immigrants.
"There's almost this dichotomy where there's the good and exceptional refugees and the rest aren't so good," she said. »
