Staff
Asha McElroy
Research and Radio Intern (she/her)
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Asha’s background is rooted in the intersectionality of urban agriculture and designing culturally sensitive nutrition education for the African American community as a future Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN). Asha developed her interest in studying cultural humility and sensitivity through her training in Family and Consumer Sciences (food and nutritional science, B.S., North Carolina A& T SU ‘20), as well as Public Health Science (nutritional science, and dietetics, University of Michigan ‘23). Asha is committed to improving the health outcomes of the African American community. As a culturally sensitive RDN, Asha will develop culturally appropriate recipes that center foods indigenous to African culture while highlighting the stories associated with the recipe to further develop the food history of the community. Asha lives by the following African proverb, “if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.”