By Alanah Nichole Davis & Michelle Geiss
These last weeks of March mark one year since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. In this guest post, Impact Hub Baltimore marketing and outreach manager Alanah Nichole Davis and executive director Michelle Geiss each take a section to share how the Station North social entrepreneurship community has approached the last year, and what they’re taking forward.
Oh, brother. Not again.
Those were the words I could best pair to the feeling in my soul when the calendar flipped from February 2021 to March 2021, nearly a month ago. I didn’t shudder because I don’t like Aries season, but because of the trauma I think we all have surrounding what happened in 2020 — from civil unrest due to the murder of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so, so many others, to the pandemic that we are still in.
While it’s a year later and a light has shone through with acts like Mayor Brandon Scott getting the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, I honestly can’t believe it’s been over 365 days since the start of what has been a triple threat of a harrowing, unprecedented and considerably life-changing time this past year.
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