ABOUT ME - now ...

I am Dr. ’Demi Fauziyyah, a public health professional, educator, and wellness guide rooted in faith, community, and care.

My work lives at the intersection of health equity, spiritual grounding, and women’s wellness. With almost three decades of experience in public health research, program management, and community-based practice, I have dedicated my career to addressing health disparities while holding space for healing that is intentional, culturally affirming, and sustainable.

This work did not begin in theory … it began in practice. In 1999, as an undergraduate at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), I served as a peer health educator, leading women’s wellness sessions through campus health services, facilitating general health education across campus, and providing HIV counseling in inner-city Baltimore. Those early years, rooted in direct community engagement in the early 2000s, shaped not only my professional path, but my understanding of what it means to care for women in ways that are accessible, compassionate, and real.

Since my undergraduate years, my journey has unfolded across continents and seasons - through motherhood, migration, study, leadership, and deep personal growth. Along the way, I completed my doctorate in public health, founded a nonprofit (The Aafiyah Project) that serves the underserved communities in the DMV, and I've returned, more intentionally than ever, to my passion for holistic wellness through Aafiyah Women’s Collective.

Today, my work is less about striving and more about alignment. Less about urgency and more about intention. I believe wellness is not something we hustle for. It is something we remember, reclaim, and return to.

Through Aafiyah Women’s Collective, I create spaces for women to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their bodies, their breath, their faith, and their sense of self. Whether through gatherings, circles, retreats, or quiet moments of reflection, my hope is to offer women permission to soften without losing strength.

This season is about grounded leadership, gentle impact, and curating health and wellness one woman, one family, one community at a time. I invite you to join me in this new and promising season.

To join the Aafiyah Women's Collective group chat, please send a text message (WhatsApp preferred) to: (202) 770-9119 or an email to: Contact@AafiyahCollective.com