Nalayeh was born in 1976 in
Somalia She was raised in a large family, with four brothers and seven sisters. She hails from the
Naleye Ahmed sub-clan of the
Dhulbahante tribe. Her sister Dega Nalayeh is a senior vice president private client advisor with
U.S. Trust. Along with her parents and siblings, an eight-year-old Nalayeh later emigrated to
Canada in 1984. They initially settled in
Edmonton,
Alberta, before eventually moving to
Toronto in 1992. Nalayeh attended the
West Humber Collegiate Institute, a high school in
Etobicoke. For her post-secondary education, she studied at the
University of Windsor, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in communications. Additionally, she earned a postgraduate certificate in broadcast journalism from
Seneca College. ==Career==