Heroes Of The COVID Crisis: How Dr. Rita Brock of Volunteers of America Is Helping People To Cope With the Emotional and Moral Trauma of The Pandemic

An Interview With Phil La Duke

I actually am as hopeful as I’ve ever been. There are many crises affecting our country right now — the pandemic, economic challenges, racial injustice, climate change — and I feel like people are really paying attention to all of them. People want change and they are pushing for that and as someone who’s been an activist for most of my life — I feel like many of the things we’ve been fighting a long time for have a real chance of happening now as a result because of new generations of activists who are stepping up.

As part of my series about people who stepped up to make a difference during the COVID19 Pandemic I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, Senior Vice President of Moral Injury and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America.