Mohamed Semra

But I think if that taught me anything is that in the service of others, sacrifices need to be made.

I'm a big family person myself and I've always, you know, put family at the forefront of my decision making.

And now that's been extended to my community.

So when I think about my role as mayor, my role as being the first mayor,

There'll be a lot of scratches that I need to take.

But like I said before, what makes it easier is understanding that there are going to be people that benefit from this.

Because if I succeed, many of the communities I mentioned will benefit.

But if I fail, then a lot of them will feel it as well.

Eight years old, yeah.

So I don't remember much when I was young, cause I did come here at three, but returning there, we stayed for one year and it was life changing for me.

Seeing where we were to where we are now.

And Sudan right now is at a precipice.

It's the largest displacement crisis in the world.

I can't even repeat on camera a lot of the atrocities that are happening there.

But when I was there, I was able to be more grateful.

And I think it's reinforced the values and my why.

Because I feel extremely lucky to be where I am today.

My father was wrongly imprisoned because, as I said before, we belonged to a minority tribe.

I'm in Sudan, and there was a lot of conflict happening at the time, and men from my village were obviously getting taken.

And it was very unsafe for my mom to remain where she was.