Deqa Dhalac, the nation's first Somali-American mayor, to be

Deqa Dhalac, the first Somali-American mayor in the U.S., will be the featured speaker at Southern Maine Community College’s 75th commencement. Dhalac fled Somalia as a young woman in 1990 with her homeland on the precipice of war, making her way from Europe to Canada to the United States and, eventually, to Maine in 2005. […]

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