USA Team (Girl’s Book)

Maggie Schmitt

Maggie has an Masters in Public Health in Forced Migration and Health from Columbia University. She has worked on a range of community health systems, menstrual health and hygiene management and adolescent health research projects at Columbia over the past 9 years.

Azure Nowara

Azure has a Masters in Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and is the Associate Director of the Lerner Center for Health Promotion. Azure provides administrative and research support to the center, including coordinating the Health Communication certificate program.

Nana Adenu-Mensa

Nana has an MPH from Columbia University and is an MD Candidate at Yale University School of Medicine. Previously, she has supported research projects on obesity treatment and the utilization of water, sanitation and hygiene solutions in rural Haiti. She has also taught at a middle school located in Takoradi, Ghana.

Caitlin Gruer

Caitlin Gruer has a Masters in Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and currently works for the Center for Reproductive Rights. She has worked on research and programming related to the intersection of gender and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), menstrual hygiene management and pubertal transitions at Plan International and now Columbia University.

Katie Keeley

Katie has a Bachelors in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois and is a Clinical Research Coordinator at Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. Katie also coaches for Girls on the Run, an organization serving low-income Chicago youth. She is pursuing a Masters in Public Health at DePaul University in Community Health Practice.