Brenda was born in South Sudan. As a toddler she, her mother, and sister fled the civil war and spent nine years in Kakuma, a UNHCR refugee camp in Kenya. They were re-settled to the US in 2012 and re-located to Maine in 2013, when she was in seventh grade.
After learning English Brenda had a lot she wanted to say and do. She has sung and advocated and spoken in many different venues since then. Recently, she has been recognized locally as a leader and social organizer. (FMI: See Portland Press Herald article. See Hardy Girls Healthy Women site). Brenda works with Cultivating Community and volunteers in many capacities in the community when she is not wrapping up her high school classes and planning for college in the fall.
Music: "Do Like That" by Korede Bello
After learning English Brenda had a lot she wanted to say and do. She has sung and advocated and spoken in many different venues since then. Recently, she has been recognized locally as a leader and social organizer. (FMI: See Portland Press Herald article. See Hardy Girls Healthy Women site). Brenda works with Cultivating Community and volunteers in many capacities in the community when she is not wrapping up her high school classes and planning for college in the fall.
Music: "Do Like That" by Korede Bello
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