She attended Mounds Park Academy for high school and served as commencement speaker, graduating in 2015.
Khalif made national headlines in 2015 when she was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, as well as Georgetown, Stanford and the University of Minnesota.
Khalif co-founded a youth-run non-profit organization called Lighting the Way, which works to make education more accessible and equitable for girls in East Africa.
[6] As a correspondent between U.S. missions to the UN and American youth, the Youth Observer travels throughout the United States to discover the issues important to young Americans and participates with the U.S. delegation at international organization meetings.
Munira was invited twice to attend the annual White House Iftar dinner, which celebrates Muslim-American trailblazers both in the public and private sector.