I, Omar Ahmed Born in southern Somalia: Jamame know as Margarita. In Somalia, I worked for the Ministry of Education developing curriculum and facilitating educational Skills program for high school students.
             In Lewiston, I worked for the Social Services Department.  Now I’m self-employed live in Arizona. I work as a freelance for Tempe School District. Besides that, I’m a playwright and my last play was “Love in the Cactus Village” produced L.A. Arts and was performed in Auburn, in the Little Theater in 2003. Now I’m working a novel called "The flower and Flames of Turda" (It is the story of a peaceful village destroyed by civil war and it is about a people facing modern wars and hatred that destroy countless families, turn good people bad, and provide fertile soil for the evil flowers of anger, rage, sorrow, and destruction to prosper).
             Holder of masters in Leadership and Organizational studies, and I’m a Somali elder who mediates and resolves disputes among Somalis in diaspora. I co-authored papers on Somali immigrant/refugee mental health and substance abuse, in the Journal of International Psychology Bulletin.