Naomi is a women’s health and anthropology graduate whose work sits at the intersection of environmental health, reproductive science, and gender equity.
She recently completed her MSc in Women’s Health in London, building expertise in conditions that disproportionately affect women, from endometriosis to postpartum mental health. She is currently interning at the United Nations Population Fund in Panama, working on sexual and reproductive health. She has also spent the past few years drawn to the ocean; learning to sail at Centro Velico Caprera in Sardinia, navigating the waters of Corsica and Italy, and watching whales surface in Mexico and Iceland.
Those encounters sharpened a question she had been living with for years. Her own unexplained symptoms, and a medical system with few answers, had already pointed her toward one conclusion: environmental factors are not peripheral to women’s health, they are central to it. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in everyday plastics interfere directly with hormonal and reproductive health. Women bear a disproportionate burden, biologically and socially. Microplastics have been detected in ovarian follicular fluid, placentas, and breast milk. The ocean plastic crisis and the women’s health crisis are not two separate stories. They are the same story, unfolding inside our bodies.
Naomi joins eXXpedition to follow that story to its source — and make sure it reaches those who need to hear it most. As a writer for Sciences for Girls, a charity inspiring the next generation of girls in STEM, she will document the voyage through articles and educational content, bringing ocean science and women’s health to young audiences who rarely see themselves reflected in either field.”
