Research + science
Building evidence, asking better questions, or making complex health knowledge more useful.
She Hacks Longevity
Black women shaping healthier futures.
A growing archive of Black women turning knowledge, care, research, advocacy, and innovation into more expansive possibilities for health and longevity.
Nominate a woman
Whose work should we know?
She Hacks Longevity recognizes Black women whose work expands how health and longevity are understood, practiced, or made accessible.
Some work in public view. Others transform a neighborhood, a field, an institution, a family, or a community without receiving the attention their contribution deserves. This archive creates room for their stories.
From She Hacks Longevity
Knowledge moves when women carry it forward.
Read the ideas, practices, and contributions expanding what health and longevity can make possible.
Many forms of longevity work belong here.
A nominee’s title matters less than the contribution she is making and the people, practices, knowledge, or possibilities her work reaches.
Clinical care
Expanding the quality, relevance, or accessibility of care for Black women and their communities.
Community health
Creating programs, networks, and local practices that help people live with greater support and agency.
Advocacy + access
Changing the systems, policies, resources, or expectations that shape who receives care and information.
Innovation
Designing tools, services, products, or approaches that open new possibilities for healthspan.
Education
Helping people understand their bodies, choices, care, and health information with greater clarity.
Culture + storytelling
Shifting how Black women’s bodies, health, aging, pleasure, and possibility are represented.
Lived practice
Turning personal experience into knowledge, leadership, service, or a path others can use.
What we consider
A strong nomination helps us see the work and why it matters.
A clear contribution
Tell us what she has created, changed, studied, taught, organized, or made possible.
A connection to longevity
Show how the work relates to healthspan, well-being, care, knowledge, access, prevention, or the conditions that support a longer life.
Meaningful reach or impact
Help us understand who the work serves and what becomes different because it exists.
Enough context to begin
Share a website, article, organization, social profile, or other source that helps our editors learn more.
Make a nomination.
Tell us about a Black woman whose work belongs in the She Hacks Longevity archive. A nomination introduces her work to our editors; it does not guarantee publication.
You may nominate someone you know, someone whose work you follow, or yourself.
What happens next?
Our editors review nominations for fit, available sourcing, and the strength of the story. If we choose to pursue a profile, we will contact the nominee or nominator before publication.