Yassah Nupolu Lavelah

Yassah Nupolu Lavelah has over seven years of experience as a social entrepreneur with a specific focus on the role of maternal health in community development. She currently serves as the Nursing Supervisor at the Grace D. Wallace Memorial Clinic and a Registered Nurse at the ELWA Hospital. She has a longstanding passion for maternal health and its role in community development and partnered with her mother to create the Ma V. Maternity Clinic in 2008 as a social enterprise. Yassah Nupolu Lavelah volunteers with Youth Crime Watch of Liberia providing training to young women as it relates to personal hygiene, maternal health and responsible sexual lives. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Nursing from Cuttington University. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship program, Yassah plans to work on the development of the first community based midwifery center in Liberia. The center will provide a platform for traditional and formally trained midwives to engage the community in direct response to the alarming rate of infant mortality in Liberia (Africa).