Khadijah Abdul-Samed is a communication practitioner with nearly ten years’ experience in broadcasting, advocacy, and research. Khadjiah currently works as the Communication & Gender Officer at the Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA), an organization working to empower communities and individuals in Northern Ghana through socio-economic opportunities, and she is also the Project Lead for SWIDA’s Women-LEAD development project. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Khadijah was central to her organization’s development of an innovative media sensitization initiative that featured children as the main communicators on issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic to communities across Northern Ghana.