Bio

When Sarah was young, she watched Legally Blonde and decided she wanted to become the hijabi version of Elle Woods: well dressed, intelligent, and determined to prove everyone wrong.

It was an ambitious dream for a girl from a family where nobody had been to university and nobody had studied law. Sarah would do both. She earned her LLB and then a master's in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary University of London. Not only did she graduate with a distinction, but her tutor told her that her final exam essay could have been published in a legal journal. What mattered more to Sarah, however, was that she'd opened a door her family had never walked through.

That same drive shapes how she works today. As a paralegal at Amadeus, Sarah drafts wills and lasting powers of attorney. She has a knack for making clients feel comfortable, and the moment she has what she needs, she's working on it.

Away from the office, you'll usually find Sarah curled up under a heated blanket with hot chocolate, reading a book or watching a Turkish drama. She owns an entire library at home, where reading has always been a refuge. Though when the Iraqi national football team is playing, the blanket and book are set aside. She's watched them at the Olympics in France twice and says nothing beats the feeling when they win.

But Sarah hasn't forgotten where she came from, or what it took to get here. And she lives by a simple philosophy: you can do anything you put your mind to, so do not limit yourself. She's living proof that it works.