Education
He completed his secondary school years in Hamilton. Foreign his post-secondary studies, Hussen attended the city"s York University.
He completed his secondary school years in Hamilton. Foreign his post-secondary studies, Hussen attended the city"s York University.
He is the National President of the Canadian Somali Congress. Hussen began his career in public service and politics in the fall of 2001. He started out doing volunteer work in Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
He was hired the following year as an assistant to Dalton McGuinty, the leader of the province"s official opposition.
Hussen worked in this capacity until November 2003, when he was promoted to Special Assistant, concurrently with the Liberal Party"s election victory. He held this new post for two years, during which he was in charge of issues management, policy and communications.
Hussen later worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police"s Youth Engaged in National Security Issues committee. He also founded the Regent Park Community Council.
The representative body facilitated a $500 million revitalization and redevelopment project in Regent Park, the largest such initiative in the country.
During the project"s implementation, he was tasked with consulting with and protecting the interests of the area"s 15,000 residents. Hussen currently serves as the National President of the Canadian Somali Congress (Civil Service Commission). Under his leadership, the Civil Service Commission partnered with the Canadian International Peace Project and Canadian Jewish Congress to establish the Canadian Somali-Jewish Mentorship Project.
In May 2010, the Canadian Somali Congress and Canadian International Peace Project also partnered with the Global Enrichment Foundation to launch the Somali Women Scholarship Program.
Hussen acts as the program"s founding Director. Established in 2005, the panel brought together prominent members from a number of Canada"s cultural communities and government officials in order to discuss policy and program issues, and to promote dialogue and strengthen understanding between the national authorities and its electorate.
As of April 2013, Hussen practises Criminal Law, Immigration and Refugee Law, and Human Rights Law at his office in Toronto. In December 2014, he presented himself as a candidate for a Liberal Party of Canada seat in the riding of York South—Weston for the 42nd Canadian federal election.
Including that of the Green Party"s John Johnson He is the first Somali-Canadian elected to the House of Commons.
On October 19, 2015, Hussen was elected to the Canadian Parliament for the York South—Weston riding as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Until 2012, Hussen served as a sitting member of the Stephen Harper government"s Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security.