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The Camden community is mourning 26-year-old Esiyah Dixon-Waheed, who died July 24 in Missouri after an alleged drunk driver struck the vehicle she was in head-on during a church retreat. Family says she was a passenger.
Esiyah Dixon-Waheed: A. Life of Purpose and Promise
Dixon-Waheed is being remembered as a vibrant and multitalented young woman. She graduated from Camden’s Creative Arts High School and earned a criminal justice degree from Wiley University in Texas. There, she sang in the A Cappella Choir and contributed to the Freedom Film Project. Her talents extended beyond music. She was dancer actor, former pageant queen, choreographer, tutor, and vocal coach.
After college, she taught middle school in Texas and later worked as a juvenile detention officer in Minnesota. Her mother, Mahasin Waheed-Parker, shared that Esiyah had recently expressed a desire to return to Camden to launch a nonprofit aimed at uplifting her hometown…