Sithalima Abdool was a Masters student at ACMS in 2015. Her research thesis was titled Changing urban policy from below: The case study of Somali migrants in Johannesburg. It looks at how Somalis in Mayfair continue to change the 8th Avenue area, despite the City of Johannesburg’s restrictions around the use of space as business. She is currently a Public Policy Research Coordinator at the Auwal Socio Economic Research Institute.