Fatima Saidi
Fatima Saidi (she/her) is the Development and Relations Manager at the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition. Born in a small village in Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 1996 at the age of two, she became a refugee in Quetta, Pakistan, when her family took refuge from the Taliban. Fatima came to Lewiston, Maine as an international student at Bates College in 2013. While in college, she held internships with the International Institute of St. Louis in Missouri, United Nations and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the World Hazara Council in Vienna, Austria. She is a graduate of Bates College with a double major in political science and religious studies and has also worked as the Development Coordinator and the Grant Writer at the Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment in the City of Boston.