I found everyone around me had similar pandemic experiences – we all went to work now we worked from home. The more I kept hearing the same complaints, the harder I found it to relate to what was happening in the news. My world felt narrow. It also didn’t feel like the whole story.

I wanted to talk to people in different industries to see how they felt about this pandemic and how they were navigating it. In doing so, I discovered a way to process it all rather than let it simply pass by me. It made me realize that something as simple as (and as cliche as) hope can carry people through a lot of challenges.