Date Posted: March 23, 2026.
In the process of finding her voice as “a writer, observer, critical thinker, resister, and ally,” Dawn is continuing to evolve “as each new story finds its way into existence, continuously changing and transforming.”
Tag: Healthcare
The Privilege of Hesitancy
Date posted: August 4, 2025
On May 16, 2025, Hanaan Khabir interviewed Eddy (she/her) on her experiences working with unhoused populations during the official years of the pandemic (March 2020-May 2023). She currently works as the director of a university-based organization that supports survivors of sexual violence, intimate-partner violence, and stalking. Before becoming director, she worked as a case manager on a sexual assault response team, providing the advocacy response for survivors of sexual assault, an agency that also included advocating in hospitals where SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner) exams were conducted.
“They looked at me as if I knew everything—but I was just trying to survive”
Date Posted: 12 July, 2025.
Egypt confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on Valentine’s Day, 2020. Since then, different measures were actively endorsed to contain the pandemic: schools and universities closed their doors, social distancing became the norm, a nationwide curfew was enforced, and many public hospitals were repurposed to isolation wards. As of July 2025, there are 24,830 recorded deaths in Egypt. Yet, many human rights organizations accuse the Egyptian government of underreporting the real numbers. Still, behind these figures lies a strained health system marked by serious disparities in the distribution of healthcare workers and poor quality of care—particularly in the public health sector.
From World War II to Covid-19
Date Posted: June 13, 2025
For Page Hawk, 2020 began like any other year, with the exception, she told me, “of massive construction at Ingleside and the rapid spread of COVID-19.” Hawk spent the majority of her life in Washington, DC. She described her decision to move into independent living at Ingleside as a practical one. “We moved here to socialize,” she told me matter-of-factly. “Back in 2020, there was a new director at Ingleside. His name was Felix. He was quite strict with us about social distancing and
following the rules.”
LouVax, Four Years Later
Date posted: Abril 16, 2025
From January to late April 2021, the city of Louisville, Kentucky ran an elaborately coordinated COVID-19 vaccination site at Broadbent Arena within the Louisville Exposition Center grounds. The clinic administered over 100,000 shots and employed volunteers who put in over 76,000 hours.
Vignettes of Time: Reflections on the Week COVID Came to Be with Hanaan and Avery
Date posted: March 14, 2025
For Hanaan, COVID began in December when the news began reporting it, working as a volunteer in the ER and seeing people come in droves, fearing they had contracted this virus. But the world officially ‘ended’ when everything in the United States shut down. For Avery, it was a slow trickle, then all at once with her birthday on the 14th of March in Texas – a state that would become contentious in the debate over covid restrictions that came from the community efforts to stop the spread of the virus.
“All of Us Were Willing to Run into the Fire”
Date Posted: Feb 2, 2025.
An interview with Dr. Ashwin Shankar on Forging Community Bonds and Pediatric Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For Noni and countless others, the pandemic reshaped daily life
DATE POSTED: MARCH 9, 2025
Moving to an assisted living home in the midst of a global pandemic might seem like a
controversial choice, but for Ilona Lund (“Noni”) and her husband, the decision was simple. “The
isolation, and not knowing how the pandemic was going to end, played a large role in our
decision to move.”
“People want perfect healthcare; not good, perfect”
Date Posted: NOV 11, 2024.
On October 8, 2024, Avery Nennmann and Hanaan Khabir interviewed Dr. Bill Morris on his experiences during the early months of the pandemic for the More than a Healthcare Hero Initiative.
“It Was the Most Stressful Year of My Career. Hands Down.”
Date Posted: Sep 16, 2024
An Interview with Dr. Eileen Gavin on Serving Native Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.