My name is Hawa Ibrahim, and I am passionate about International Relations, African Studies, and Somali Bantu Diasporic Studies. I also own a podcast that you may know of called Mashallah Sisters! podcast, which is a digital storytelling effort to illuminate the lived gendered experiences of Somali Bantu women navigating life in the US through the use of podcasting, in an effort to increase the number of digital spaces Somali Bantu women have access to. I've had the most life-changing and fruitful conversations with other women about marriage, parental relations, intergenerational trauma, identity crisis, and so much more that create spaces for dialogue to address cultural issues that continue to harm us. It has been a passion project of mine that has a life built a life of its own. It's led me to resume my passion for research in my favorite place in the whole wide world, Africa. As well as where it all began for me and my family, the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya (at one point Kenya was one of the largest refugee camps in the world). My research aims to utilize podcasting as a medium for transnational digital storytelling to illuminate the lived gendered experiences of the Somali Bantu refugee women in Dadaab. My trip will take place in December, and for two weeks, I will be in the refugee camp conducting research while I see family I have not seen in over 20 years. (since I was a child!). I am also very excited to be working with two amazing Somali Bantu organizations that I discovered through podcasting and talking to brilliant Bantu women doing amazing work in the community. The organizations are Somali Resilience TV and Somali Alliance for Justice and Equality Movement!