Anna-Lysa Gayle

3 weeks ago | substack.com | Anna-Lysa Gayle

I’m an award-winning journalist based in the nation’s capital, born in Jamaica and partly raised on the East Coast. I’m here to share my creative writing and life lessons. Author of Standby: A Guide for Aspiring & Early Career Journalists.

1 month ago | annalysagayle.com | Anna-Lysa Gayle

I’ve written this post in my head five hundred times, but I’ve only had the time to put pen to paper a month after giving birth. Time seems to move much faster with a baby. Being pregnant was very surreal for me. I don’t think it really hit me until the end, and even then, it felt like an out-of-body experience. To prepare, I did a lot of research. I got the doula. I watched the educational videos on being a first-time parent. And still, nothing really prepares you for the first few weeks.

Mar 12, 2025 | dcnewsnow.com | Anna-Lysa Gayle

MARYLAND (DC News Now) — Several Maryland college students are working on a solution to help hospital patients and nursing home residents who may be unable to speak. “It’s just enabling them to communicate to the staff using eye tracking, so if they need to have a request like ‘I need to talk to a nurse’ or ‘I need to talk to a CNA,’ they are able to sort of look at those icons and be able to send a request,” Andy Heredia, co-founder of SONE, said.

Mar 12, 2025 | yahoo.com | Anna-Lysa Gayle

MARYLAND (DC News Now) — Several Maryland college students are working on a solution to help hospital patients and nursing home residents who may be unable to speak. “It’s just enabling them to communicate to the staff using eye tracking, so if they need to have a request like ‘I need to talk to a nurse’ or ‘I need to talk to a CNA,’ they are able to sort of look at those icons and be able to send a request,” Andy Heredia, co-founder of SONE, said.

Mar 7, 2025 | dcnewsnow.com | Anna-Lysa Gayle

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Ola Ojewumi was born and raised in Prince George’s County, and she now focuses on giving back to the community after a life-changing experience at just 9 years old. “I was blindsided by a diagnosis of a rare heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). If you watch the news and you see athletes who suddenly drop dead, that’s typically the condition that they have,” she said. She has been in and out of hospitals since her first diagnosis.