Support after tragedy helps keep student on path to graduation

Ameena Yusuf (global studies) was almost knocked off her path to graduation early in her college career when her father got sick and then died of cancer. Support from her teachers and fellow students at UWM comforted her and got her back on track.

“I have kind of built a family here,” she says.

While at UWM, she got an internship in Nigeria, her father’s homeland and her childhood home, where she worked with people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. She hopes someday to work for the United Nations.