She was well known for spearheading the campaign #JusticeforLiz which was launched in order to seek justice for a 16 year old Kenyan girl called Liz who was brutally raped in 2013.
[1] Nebila has previously served as manager of media relations at FEMNET, an institution that advocates for women's growth in Africa.
As a young Muslim woman of Harari origin, she says she suffered from discrimination, which influenced her in becoming an activist.
[5] In 2013, she launched an online petition titled #JusticeforLiz following the gang rape of Liz[who?]
and the petition garnered more than 2 million signatures demanding death sentence for the rapists.