Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Sakariya Ahmed is an innovative city builder who works to address disparate outcomes to build nurturing and sustainable communities. Sakariya is passionate about advocating to institutions for disenfranchised young people and leveraging their power to influence positive change. Sakariya was recently an Action Canada Public Policy fellow, working on housing policy and publishing a report on governmental responses to the homelessness crisis.

As part of the Somali Centre for Culture & Recreation (SCCR), Sakariya has been driving the creation of purpose built community space. The SCCR team represents a larger community that has suffered from a dearth of Black-led and Black-servicing infrastructure. Representing SCCR, he’s also taken part of UofT’s Social Purpose Real-Estate accelerator.

Sakariya has worked to shift educational pipelines and inclusion efforts with his alma-mater, Ivey School of Business as an Advisor. He's been able to help Ivey revamp their EDI strategy and partner with the private sector to implement transformative programming to Black students