Aicha Abdillahi Ali
Discipline: Special Education
About: Aicha Abdillahi Ali was born in Djibouti, the city of Djibouti, in 1984. She moved to the United States in 2011. She is married and has two children.
Aicha received the B.T.S. degree in Superior Technician Certificate from the University of Djibouti in 2006. She completed her HISET diploma at Lewiston Learning Center in Lewiston, Maine. Aicha graduated from Central Maine Community College with an associate degree in human services in 2021 and the University of Southern Maine with a bachelor’s degree in social and behavioral sciences in 2023.
Since 2018, Aicha is employed with the Department of Public Schools in Lewiston, Maine as a Teacher’s Assistant, Substitute Teacher, Educational Technician, and Interpreter.
English is her fourth language. She has been doing all her studies in French for sixteen years, so now she is happy and excited about doing English and getting some new degrees. While in elementary school she enjoyed participating in community service work at her school. Her advocacy work began with cultural awareness during Ramadan at the McMahon Elementary School, where she was employed. Her role was to lead the students (girls) to prayer time; she also explained to the teachers what time they (students) go to prayers and where. She asked the principal if she could create a place to pray and stay during lunch for the fasting students. She organized cultural events for the family at school, designed henna designs, and distributed the prize tickets to the families and students. She displayed Somali traditional clothes and hair beads.
