31 year old Anadin Tokmic resides in Charlotte with his wife, Farah.  He currently works at Wells Fargo and is pursing his Ph.D. degree in Computing and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte. Fara, is a postdoctoral Fellow at UNC Charlotte.
Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Anadin fled the country with his mother and brother shortly after the war began in 1992 in search of refuge in Europe. His father remained behind to fight in the war.  After moving around Europe they ended up in Germany.  However, their stay was not long lived as the German government was asking all refugees of the war to return to Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Fortunately n their case, a special exception was made by the German government as they had distant relatives residing in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and were given permission in1998 to travel to a different country in pursuit of a new life.  In 2010 Anadin moved to Charlotte after being accepted into the master's program at UNC Charlotte.  Not knowing anyone in the city at the time he sought opportunities to connect with the local Bosnian community.  This is where he first met Mirsad and his wife Mirzeta, and they have remained close friends, almost family like as Anadin describes it, over the years. That personal relationship evolved into a student professor relationship, when Anadin joined Mirsad’s lab after being accepted into the Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte.  I had an opportunity to speak with him shortly after the October 7, 2018 presidential election in Bosnia and Herzegovina.