Background
Nalayeh was born in 1976 in Somalia. She grew up in a large family, with four brothers and seven sisters.
activist entrepreneur media executive marketing consultant
Nalayeh was born in 1976 in Somalia. She grew up in a large family, with four brothers and seven sisters.
Nalayeh attended the West Humber Collegiate Institute, a high school in Etobicoke. Foreign her post-secondary education, she studied at the University of Windsor, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.
She is the President of the Cultural Integration Agency and the Vice President of Sales & Programming Development of Cameraworks Productions International. Nalayeh has over thirteen years of experience in client management, sales and production in radio and television She has served as a producer on a number of television shows, including American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.
Additionally, Nalayeh has provided marketing and writing consultancy to burgeoning companies.
Her work in this area is centered on video marketing combined with online branding. In September 2013, Nalayeh was appointed Vice President of Sales & Programming Development of Cameraworks Productions International"s Canadian operation based in Vaughan, Ontario.
The company is a global, full-service and comprehensively-equipped video and television production facility focusing on preto post-production of business-to-business video assets. Nalayeh also serves as the President of the Cultural Integration Agency, a full-service media firm specializing in the development, production, marketing and distribution of multicultural programs.
In February 2014, the company partnered with Cameraworks Productions International to produce a new television format for cultural community programming.
To this end, Nalayeh on March 1 began hosting the half-hour Somali community show Integration: Building A New Cultural Identity, which airs Saturday nights on CityTV. She also serves as an Executive Producer on the weekly Toronto program Besides media production and consultancy, Nalayeh does a lot of volunteer and advocacy work for the Somali community. In this capacity, Nalayeh also works closely with a number of non-profit organizations.
