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From honest obituaries to the White House briefing room, Marked by Covid has shaped how America talks about Covid. Covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and thousands more.
Boston University School of Public Health featured an in-depth Q&A with Marked by COVID Co-Founder Christine Keeves (SPH'08) on the organization's Remember Every One campaign, the National COVID Memorial, and the push for a permanent COVID Memorial Day. The piece also highlights the organization's partnership with BU researcher Andrew Stokes and its work on California's HOPE trust accounts for children who lost parents to COVID.
Harvard's Countway Library hosted "The Art of Grieving," an exhibition featuring Marked by COVID and the National COVID Memorial as part of the Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 research collective's culminating nationwide tour. The show ran October 30 through December 13, 2024, and included art created during the pandemic alongside the memorial's augmented reality experience.
Marked by COVID Co-Founder Kristin Urquiza is featured in 2020 Chaos and Hope, a feature-length documentary exploring the pandemic, racial strife, political unrest, and economic disparity that defined the year 2020. The film premiered in theaters in Fall 2022 and began streaming on Peacock in October 2023.
Marked by COVID co-founder Kristin Urquiza joined 9/11 Commissioner Philip Zelikow and 33 experts to publish the first comprehensive, nonpartisan examination of America's COVID response.
The Dougy Center's Grief Out Loud podcast featured DJ Arsene Versailles, who lost his mother Florcie Yves Versailles to COVID-19 in May 2020, and his work with Marked by COVID to establish a COVID Memorial Day. The episode explores the layered grief of losing a Black parent during the pandemic and how that loss inspired advocacy.
Forbes profiled Marked by COVID's campaign to establish a National COVID Memorial and a federally recognized memorial day, detailing the organization's scalable monument prototype, augmented reality component, and conversations with communities across the country about local installations. The feature placed the effort alongside America's most significant memorials, from the 9/11 Memorial to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Marie Claire profiled Marked by COVID Co-Founder Kristin Urquiza on the one-year anniversary of the organization's founding, exploring how she channeled grief into advocacy and built a national movement for COVID justice. The feature covers the organization's growth, its push for a nonpartisan pandemic commission, and its work to center the voices of bereaved families.
The Guardian covered Marked by COVID Co-Founder Kristin Urquiza's speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, where she held the Trump administration accountable for her father's preventable COVID death. The address became one of the most widely cited moments of the convention across national and international media.
Marked by COVID Co-Founder Kristin Urquiza published an op-ed in The Washington Post holding Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and President Trump accountable for the preventable COVID death of her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza. The piece helped catalyze a national conversation about leadership failures during the pandemic.