Aisha Abdullah is a Neuroscientist and Associate Director of the Global STEM Alliance at The New York Academy of Sciences.

Aisha grew up in a small, rural town in North Texas, but always dreamed of living in New York City. As a child, her room was adorned with magazine cut-outs of New York City landmarks and building, and she felt determined to live in the city, one day. Although Aisha recounts that there was “very little to do” in her hometown, she believes that “. . . growing up there gave me the freedom to explore and discover the world in a way that I might not have been able to had I grown up in a big city.”.