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INTERVIEW WITH:
DR. AMEENA ALI (DAA) PGMAG: Dr. Ameena, great to have you on today’s interview with Lady Anita. DAA: it is so wonderful to be here and to speak with you today. I can't tell you how happy I am to be featured in your magazine and to be a part of your community and tribe! I'm humbled. PGMAG: Please briefly introduce yourself to our readers. DAA: Well, I am Dr. Ameena Ali…I'm a US Army Golf War Veteran that just retired after 30 Years of Medicine. I retired to accept my role as Founder of the Federation of International Gender and Human Rights (FIGHR) and the offer to work with the UN (with the WHO and UN Women, especially) in the Mission of helping women gain access to the Maternal Care, its education and support and the Mental Health aftercare that is due all women. I have a large, “Intended Family”; spun from the term “Extended Family”, this is a welcoming that describes a family that you not only have as “blood” or those you birthed, but those you CHOSE to welcome as your “blood” and treat them no different. I have Five (5) Daughters… three (3) are “for” me and two (2) are “because of me” that I birthed; now, at last count, I have fourteen (14) Grandchildren and three more that are “Tribe Kids”… children that could be my grandchildren (by age) but not of the family directly.
20 JULY 2021
PGMAG: As a woman in leadership position, what are some of the measures required to create opportunities for the young people? DAA: PERSISTENCE. This is far and apart the greatest thing you can give anyone and anything, when establishing a thing! There has to be a goal in mind that you look to for motivation but not to HOLD onto it too tightly, in its execution. This is the mentorship-pendulum that swings from that at 2am phone call of desperation and need to that simple letter that is needed to refer them to the next step in life…and every angle and need in between. It’s like the “Intended Family”,
