{"id":1635,"date":"2020-06-08T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=1635"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:41:06","slug":"nimo-bokore","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/nimo-bokore\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimo Bokore"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Nimo Bokore is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Bokore&#8217;s education, research and practice background comprises Neuroscience and Social Work, Migration and Resettlement, Forced Migration, Refugees, Trauma and Transference, Equity and Higher Education, and Poverty and Social Policy. Her current research interests include Mental Health, Resettlement\/Integration Barriers and finding new ways for individuals, family or community healing. Bokore is the recipient of the 2014 Hilary M. Weston Scholarship for outstanding efforts and commitment to the study of mental health, and organizes the biennial <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ssic\">Somali Studies in Canada<\/a> colloquiums \u2013 most recently in 2021: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ssic\/news\/\">Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bokore&#8217;s work was <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2021\/nimo-bokore-fpa-voices\/\">featured<\/a> in the Winter 2021 edition of&nbsp;<em>FPA Voices<\/em>, which you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpavoices\/story\/helping-refugees-to-feel-at-home-in-canada\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/people\/nimo-bokore\/\">Carleton University School of Social Work<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                       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