Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

Emily Mendenhall is a professor of global health in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Rethinking Diabetes and Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women, and coeditor of Global Mental Health.

Joana Garcia is a retired military officer with twenty years of active duty under her belt. She spent most of her adult life fixing fighter jets on aircraft carriers as a US Navy aviation maintenance officer. Her warm, rich, and graceful voice can be heard in over sixty titles in multiple genres, fiction and nonfiction.