Stories by Danya AbdelHameid

Danya AbdelHameid is an audio producer, fact-checker and writer from Virginia by way of Sudan.

In a black and white photo a woman stands in front of a world map pointing to a swarm of push pins with strings tied to them that spread outward from a single point on the map

NutritionOctober 26, 2023

How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health

Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition in 1936, showed the importance of good health and developed a program that became the model for Head Start

Carol Sutton Lewis, Danya AbdelHameid, Elah Feder, The Lost Women of Science Initiative