Gender Equality and Nutrition: Women’s Empowerment as a Tool Against Malnutrition in the Middle East

Luna Awada is a 21-year-old pre-medical student studying Biology at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Awada is an alumna of the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Gender Scholars Program (TLS) at AUB (also known as MEPI-TLS). She strives to fight for other women through writing about them, sharing their struggles, and contributing to their empowerment.