COVID-19 sparked a public health and economic crisis that has dominated headlines around  the world over the last year. As the 2020-2021 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, Stephanie Nolen dug deep into this story, spending the year with people who were hardest hit by the pandemic. 

What COVID-19 Reveals follows working women, migrant workers and asylum seekers, and people who could not  “just stay home.” Stephanie surfaces the deep and unequal impact on their lives and livelihoods, and what public policy can do to help secure the health and well-being of all. 

The series was published in July 2021 in the Toronto Star and is now available in a PDF format. Read the series and share.