Akimie Worrell is a Sickle cell advocate and community health worker, specializing in the area of Art Therapy.  She has obtained her Masters in Science from an accredited university and states that she may pursue a doctorate in the future. Miss Worrell who is originally from Barbados, relocated to Westchester County with her mother and brother in search of better health care, she is the only living member in her family with SS.  While in Westchester’s health care system, Miss Worrell noticed a slew of disparities, and dealt with many challenges known only to the sickle cell community. She realized that in her area, there were no local sickle cell groups or advocates. She longed to help her community so that others would not need to struggle as she did and by the grace of God in 2020, Akimie, -through a chain of other sickle cell non-profits- found a set of likeminded individuals within her county. With no hesitation She decided to sign on in the effort to start up/be a board member of   what is now Westchester Sickle Cell Outreach. WSCO’s priorities line up well with Akimie’s focus of providing holistic and mental health support. She believes her art therapy expertise, life lessons and knowledge base, combines well with each educated, talented and empathic individual making up WSCO.  It is hoped that the sickle cell community is able to fully band together in order to provide support, change expectations of health care and greatly enrich the lives for all affected by sickle cell.