Biography

Halimah "Lima" Abdullah is Managing Editor of The Emancipator, which is part of the Institute for Advanced Study. She is an award-winning veteran national political journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering politics and government at the local, state, and federal level. She has edited and helped manage Washington coverage for such organizations as PolitiFact, Newsela, NPR, ABC News and NBC News — networks where she also wrote. Her work has also appeared in Newsweek, Capital B, CNN.com, Newsday, McClatchy newspapers, MSNBC.com, thegrio.com, TODAY.com, and The New York Times, among other publications, and has been republished in anthologies. Abdullah has taught writing courses at Brooklyn College and John Jay College in New York, the University of the District of Columbia in Washington D.C., the University of Maryland in College Park, MD., and American University in Washington D.C.

She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, the National Association of Black Journalists; the Washington Association of Black Journalists; the Education Writers Association; a decades-long Girl Scouts member, troop and regional leader; a former county and state level PTA officer; and has served on multiple nonprofit boards for organizations supporting children and families.