She works as a Community Outreach Project Manager for Safeguarding in Perivale Primary School, one of the first schools to set up an outreach programme on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice carried out on young girls normally up to age.

[1] Complications she has endured since then include acute hospitalisations, inability to have children and early menopause.

[5][6][7] In March 2018 she was nominated as an Amnesty International Human Rights Defender, and appears on the Suffragette Spirit Map.

[8][9] She is a trustee for 28TooMany, a registered charity established "to undertake research and provide knowledge and tools to those working to end FGM in the countries in Africa where it is practised and across the diaspora worldwide".

[10] In 2013 Ali appeared in 'The Cruel Cut', a BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 documentary about female genital mutilation presented by psychotherapist and activist Leyla Hussein.