— Lejla Ajdin —

Lejla is currently a fourth year student of international relations at the International University of Sarajevo. Her interests in human rights, migration, security, and transitional justice are rooted in her own families war experiences, from concentration camps to forced relocations and shrapnel injuries. She has been a member of many NGOs, student organizations, and student clubs which showed her that progress is possible and that young people are willing to work on it. These interests developed even further after she participated in the US department of state supported UGRAD exchange. In the future, Lejla is planning on pursuing geopolitics, or genocide studies as her master degree, as a way to help her home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina be more than a country marked by the war of the 1990s.