Marie Claire: Kristin Urquiza Wants Her Dad's Death to Mean Something

In a July 2021 feature, Marie Claire reporter Rachel Epstein profiled Marked by COVID Co-Founder and Executive Director Kristin Urquiza one year after she launched the organization on the day of her father Mark's funeral. The piece traces Kristin's journey from writing her father's viral obituary to speaking at the Democratic National Convention to building Marked by COVID into a national nonprofit with chapters in seven states, a core team of 15 volunteers, an activist base of roughly 1,000, and 100,000 people engaged through its social channels and mailing lists.

The profile highlights Marked by COVID's advocacy for a permanent COVID Memorial Day, a nonpartisan commission to investigate the federal pandemic response, and the organization's mission to document the truth of what happened for future generations. Read the full article in Marie Claire.