Sep 24, 2019
Angela Beale-Tawfeeq, a Rowan University professor and former competitive swimmer who created a program to teach city kids how to swim—something particularly relevant for African Americans, whose rate of unintentional drowning is more than 5 times that of white children. She has done some pretty great work, partnering with Masjidullah and with Brannon Johnson, who owns the only all-female African American boathouse in the country.