{"id":10159,"date":"2025-03-07T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=10159"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:28:26","slug":"nejra-sumic","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/nejra-sumic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nejra Sumic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nejra Sumic is a human rights activist and advocate. She is a former Refugee who was forced to flee from her home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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