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Yasmin Nagi

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Yasmin Nagi was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in Sana'a, Yemen by her Sudanese mother and Yemeni father until her family returned to Brooklyn when she was thirteen years old. She attended the Secondary School for Research in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and studied international relations at the City College of New York in Manhattan. While at City College, she became involved with the Arab Association of New York as a volunteer and a youth fellow.