Between Headlines

Marisa Renee Lee is a writer, founder and social impact consultant. Marisa's writing has been featured on Vogue, Glamour and CNN. Her work details her intimate relationship with grief and her experience as a black woman in America. Marisa says the black community is grieving through the violence and racial reckoning of 2020, and weighs in on how to be an effective ally. Marisa opens up to Between Headlines about grief in it's many forms, what it was like to lose her mother at 25, a recent pregnancy loss and her years long battle with fertility, all leading her to start Supportal, an organization that shares how to show up for people we love, facing life altering challenges. 

Diana Berrent is a photographer, lawyer, and as of recently, a Coronavirus survivor advocate. Diana was diagnosed with Covid19 in early March after attending a business meeting in New York City. She suffered through weeks of the disease in total isolation and 6 months later, still experiences side effects from her battle. While isolated, Diana dreamed up a coalition of Coronavirus survivors who would share their life saving plasma, participate in medical studies and connect on their experiences. That idea turned into, "Survivor Corps", a Facebook group that now has over 107,000 members. Diana tells Between Headlines what it's really like to battle Covid19, what she's hearing from survivors and Covid "long-haulers", and what we can all do to support each other through the pandemic. 

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Transition music: Sneaky Adventure by Kevin MacLeod

Between Headlines follows journalist Alison Hall as she interviews the people behind top news stories. The podcast features regular human beings (who turn out to be far from it) whose stories will inspire, educate and challenge your views. Go beyond the 24-hour news cycle and listen in to hear guests’ unfiltered version of their story, how their lives were impacted and what they learned. New episodes will be released bi-weekly.