East Point’s ‘Miss Morehouse’, (Benedict College Alumna, Zakiyah Morris), works to build trust as community health worker | Benedict College | Columbia, South Carolina

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East Point’s ‘Miss Morehouse’, (Benedict College Alumna, Zakiyah Morris), works to build trust as community health worker | Benedict College | Columbia, South Carolina

Zakiyah Morris had no idea what a community health worker does when she applied for the job two years ago. But the 26-year-old East Point resident has since become the face of public health in the city just south of Atlanta. Morris works for a Morehouse School of Medicine project focused on improving health equity in East Point, which has a population of about 38,000. She’s so closely associated with the project that residents call her “Miss Mor…