Mr. Issa lives with distant, better-off relatives, does occasional electronics-repair work and gets a little money from an older brother, who after a 12-year job hunt, finally found workasan electrical engineer earlier this year.
So she put soccer on hold for about four years while she travelled to Rome, worked for 2 years at start-up, Oodle.com and put her Civil and Environmental Engineering degree to workasan Energy Engineer for Emcor.