Ariam was born in Eritrea and moved to the USA in 2017 as a first-generation immigrant, and has been supporting Eritrean community members since then. Ariam has a background in art and is an award-winning author, film director, poet, storyteller, and television host. She has written and directed three films, the second won awards at international film festivals in the U.S., three-stage dramas, and also published a book of poems and short stories which became one of the bestselling books in Eritrea that year.