Memphis’ first lady talks health careers with teen girls at symposium
MEMPHIS, TN - October 21, 2024: Memphis first lady and BHSU nursing graduate Jamila Smith-Young speaks during the third annual SHE (Science, Health, Empowerment) Leads the Way Symposium at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis campus. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Eighty girls and young women registered for SHE Leads the Way, a symposium at Baptist Memorial Hospital where Jamila Smith-Young served as the special guest speaker.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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