Monahana Atisha was one of the people who exposed the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan about a decade ago.

I respect the science of what lead does. I understand it's a potent irreversible neurotoxin and I also understand that leads a form of

environmental racism. Dr Mona as she is known is a pediatrician by trade so

here was the first thing on her mind when she learned about the

lead in Flint's water. That's the last thing our kids in Flint needed. That's the

moment I stopped sleeping. I stopped eating.

I lost about 30 pounds.

And I began this quest to find out

if that lead was getting into the bodies of our children.

When Dr Mona began digging into health records of children in Flint that showed high levels of lead in their blood,

she found that many of those kids were also facing poverty.

So earlier this year, Dr. Mona launched a first of its kind program to tackle

child poverty giving every new mother in Flint cash for the first year of the

baby's life. Dr Mona saw it as a way to help for the first year of the baby's life.

Dr Mona saw it as a way to help meet the child's nutritional

and health care needs.

What happens in that first year of life

can really portend your entire life course trajectory.

Your brain literally doubles in size

in the first 12 months of life.

At her clinic, she pops into a checkup for baby Rowan

who's just two days old.

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