 When you look at the Somali culture they call us the nation of poets and also art is a big part of the Somali culture so kind of knowing my history and knowing my culture it kind of has inspired me to take graphic design as a way of expressing myself and as a way of just giving back to the community as well. By day I'm a public servant I work for the New South Wales Community Relations Commission and by night and weekends I'm a part owner of Flashpoint Graphics and also do work as a volunteer at the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency and also I am a chair of their youth sector. Myself and my family left Somalia in 1993 there was a civil war which still happened until today in Somalia and we stayed about a year and a half in a refugee camp in Kenya and through humanitarian visa I was able to luckily enough arrive to Australia in 1993. My family and my parents a lot of time do talk about the golden days of Somalia and to kind of look at photos now on Google or on YouTube yeah it's quite amazing and I can definitely say we've left a lot behind. We're a young graphic design studio and we're quite unique my business partner is 25 years old I'm 21 and most of our employees are under the age of 25 so as a young group we're able to provide a fresh kind of new style of design and we all most of us are from a refugee background so we do have our own stories to share as well. One of the things that really motivates me in the creative and design space is using film as a medium to express people's stories that don't tend to have a voice. Recently I went back to Kenya so I went down recorded a short documentary in Kenya at the dub which is the world's largest refugee camp. It was a really emotional trip took a lot out of me but I learned a lot and I encountered countless stories of hardship of courage. I am the chairman of the Horn of Africa Youth Association. We advocate for young Africans through our annual conference through sports through soccer. One of the things that we successful in doing we launched a report called Our Voices United African Youth Speak which kind of goes over the issues facing young Africans here in Australia the settlement issues accessing employment you know dealing with law enforcement agencies so that's one way we kind of advocate and give back to our community. I really do hope that through the work that I do through my design through the volunteer work that I do as well that it will inspire and also motivate young people and to kind of say look if he can do it I can do it