by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

Last year, in the early stages of pandemic lockdown, then-CSWS director and law professor Michelle McKinley began receiving panicked emails from faculty friends and Center affiliates who are caregivers. With 4J schools and childcare facilities shut down, as well as shortages in long-term elder care services, how were they supposed to fulfill their teaching and research commitments at the university while also meeting the labor-intensive care needs of others?  

Dear
 Friends, 

by Carla Macal, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography

by Melissa L. Barnes, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology

by Zeinab Nobowati, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy

by Sarah R. Horn, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology

By Annalee Ring, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy

by Ola Adeniji, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology

by Robin Okumu, PhD, Department of Comparative Literature

by Teresa Hernández-Reed, PhD, Department of English