GMF Coronavirus Update from the United States: Community Challenges and Local Responses

Speakers

• Geraldine Gardner, Executive Director, Centralina Council of Governments
• Dr. Elandre Dedrick, Program Officer, Leadership Programs, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Jason Wynne Hughes (MMF '20), State Representative, Louisiana House of Representatives, District 100; Chief of Staff and Vice President, Global Public Affairs & Partnerships, African Diaspora Consortium (ADC)

Moderator

• Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Deputy Director of the Berlin office, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

As the coronavirus epidemic spreads across the globe, it has left none of the 50 U.S. states untouched. While some urban areas, including in New York, New Jersey, Louisania, and Illinois have been hit particularly hard early on, other hot spots are emerging across the country. Cases in the Midwest and in the mid-Atlantic are rising rapidly. Meanwhile, emergency preparedness,  access to health care and vital supplies varies vastly across the United States, as have local responses in the absence of clear federal guidelines. 

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to invite you to a conversations with GMF experts and local leaders to discuss how the coronavirus is affecting different communities in the United States, why certain demographic groups, including African Americans, are hit particularly hard, and how local officials are responding to the challenge.

Please register to join the conversation and take part in the Q&A with the panelists.

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact Itai Barsade at [email protected].