A New Normal

How are companies using the pandemic as an opportunity to re-imagine the way we work? Marie Woods, Director of Operations for a global law firm based in Washington, DC, talks about how her firm has shifted operations and how this shift may become the new normal.

Want to put faces to the voices you hear on the show?
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anewnormalpodcast/
Our website will be up soon: www.anewnormalpodcast.com

And if you have a suggestion for the show, by all means get in touch. Until our website is up and running you can contact me at www.kelleyslynch.com

This episode was edited by Kelley

The theme music is Fragilistic by Ketsa
licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

Why do African Americans make up just 47% of the population of Washington, DC but account for 80% of DC's deaths from COVID-19? We’ve been told that it boils down to factors like genetics and diet. But today’s guest, Maurice Cook, Founder and Executive Director of Serve Your City DC, a non-profit based in Washington, is fed up with explanations like that. Maurice talks with co-host Cindy Sealls about how his organization is continuing to support underserved youth and their families during the pandemic. He also offers a generous helping of straight talk about the larger factors that are making African Americans vulnerable to COVID-19 and that other virus that has long infected this country: racism.

Links to Serve Your City DC:
Find out more and/or make a donation here: www.serveyourcitydc.org
Interested in volunteering? Email Maurice here: [email protected]
Instagram: instagram.com/serveyourcity
Twitter: twitter.com/serveyourcitydc

Want to put faces to the voices you hear on the show?
Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/anewnormalpodcast
or @anewnormalpodcast

A couple of other resources:
The podcast Cindy mentions in the last section:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/episodes/why-covid-black-people

A few facts:
https://dcist.com/story/20/05/06/black-washingtonians-make-up-less-than-half-of-d-c-s-population-but-80-of-coronavirus-deaths/

Get in touch!
And if you have a suggestion for the show, we'd love to hear from you. Our website will be up soon (www.anewnormalpodcast.com). Until then you can always contact me at www.kelleyslynch.com

This episode was edited by Kelley
www.kelleyslynch.com

The theme music is Fragilistic by Ketsa 
licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

Who do you call when you suspect that life as we know it may have reached a point of no return? Kelley talks with Laurie Mazur, Resilience Editor at Island Press. Laurie has been writing and thinking about scary things since the 80s. She talks about what the pandemic has revealed about our world and how resilience thinking might come to the rescue. 

Check out some of Laurie’s most recent publications:

https://islandpress.org/resilience-matters-download

https://progressive.org/magazine/build-infrastructure-for-the-future-mazur/

https://progressive.org/magazine/fix-it-and-they-will-come-mazur/

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-10-08/commentary-the-danger-of-development-in-flood-prone-areas

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/despairing-about-climate-crisis

 
Find more about Laurie and her work here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-mazur-5232a46/

This episode was edited by Kelley

www.kelleyslynch.com

The theme music is Fragilistic by Ketsa 

licensed under CC BY NC ND 4.0

What do you do when a pandemic brings life as you know it to a screeching halt? In quarantine, with travel on hold, photographer and storyteller Kelley Lynch, finds a new normal at home and ropes her two best friends—one in Washington, DC and the other in Bangladesh—into starting a podcast. Join hosts Kelley Lynch, Cindy Sealls and Obaidul Fattah Tanvir as they talk with people from around the world about adapting to life during the pandemic and where we go from here. New episodes every week starting May 27.