Executive Committee

Halimah “Lima” Abdullah is the vice president for administration at the Montgomery County Council of PTAs (MCCPTA) and the Service Unit Manager for Girl Scouts‘ region 34-8. She is an award winning veteran national political journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering politics and government – including education matters – at the local, state, and federal level for such places as ABC, NBC, CNN and other news outlets. She currently serves as the Deputy Washington Editor for NPR. She has taught undergraduate level English, creative writing and journalism at Brooklyn College and John Jay College in New York and the University of the District of Columbia in Washington D.C., undergraduate journalism courses at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD., and graduate level journalism courses at American University in Washington D.C.