Board of Directors

Suber Aqilyare is an investor and entrepreneur with several successful exits from healthcare businesses in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of St. Thomas.

After building and selling healthcare businesses, he now invests for the long term in agriculture, real estate and operating companies. He looks for durable enterprises, holds them patiently and backs strong leadership to run them.

He brings that same long-term thinking to his philanthropic work in education and economic opportunity in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, where he focuses on building institutions that serve communities for generations.

Ustadha Amal Abdifatah, born in Virginia and raised in Minnesota, has had a lifelong interest in the Islamic sciences. She received her elementary, middle and high school education at Al-Amal School, a private Islamic school in Minnesota. She went on to pursue her passion for studying Islam traditionally by enrolling in and graduating from the five-year Alimiyah Program at Qalam Institute in Dallas, Texas. She is currently a Master’s student at the Islamic University of Minnesota, where she studies Hadith with Sh. Tariq Awadullah.

Ustadha Amal also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on Islam.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Strive Sisterhood, a nonprofit organization and Islamic women’s learning center dedicated to spreading Islamic knowledge to Muslim women.