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0:00:03.6 Sheriff Almakki: Hi, I'm Sheriff Almakki and I'm a first year MPP here at the Ford School.

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0:00:10.6 SA: I came to Ford because I wanted to change careers. Previously, I was a biochemist, but as a Syrian American, I'd spent a lot of time doing Syrian refugee advocacy and activism, and I found myself thinking about it a lot and thinking how I could make a bigger impact.

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0:00:25.5 SA: Ford has been such an amazing experience and community. The professors are engaged, the students are engaged. I find myself impressed every single day with the people who are in my classroom and in my extra-curriculars, and it has a feeling of community that I feel like you wouldn't get at some of the other programs that might be our peer institutions.

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