In this episode, I welcome Alia, who is now a lightweight rower for Saudi and also works in public health and cancer research at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. She shares her journey from rowing novice at Oxford to being a national level athlete. We also discuss the challenges of being a female and Muslim athlete. Alia also shares a bit more about her current job in public health, and how COVID has impacted her work so far.
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