Eskedar Girmash joined NASHP in June 2020 as a research analyst with the Child and Family Health Team. She focuses on work related to children with special health care needs. Prior to joining NASHP, Eskedar was a health policy intern in US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office. She also held an internship with the National Association of Community Health Centers on the federal affairs team and worked as summer fellow at Oasis Free Clinics in Brunswick, ME. During college, Eskedar completed an honors thesis on racial maternal health inequities that explored how Birth Justice praxis (practices) can mold health policy and medical education to improve outcomes for Black mothers. Eskedar graduated with a BA from Bowdoin College in 2020, where she studied Africana Studies on a premedical track.