Recently NJCH Board Chair Dan Fatton and Executive Director Carin Berkowitz co-wrote an op-ed entitled, “Staying Human During the Pandemic.” Published on March 23, 2020 in NJ Spotlight, the piece explores ways to stay human and connected during this time of disconnect and uncertainty.
“The past several weeks have certainly been strange for most of us — busy at times, full of frantic planning and activity, followed by eerily odd slowness, with plenty of moments of silence and uncertainty. There is a palpable sense of fear right now, but also anger, sadness, distrust, and sometimes when we’re lucky, hopefulness.
On Thursday, March 12, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) made the difficult decision to proactively request all organizations funded by its public programming to cancel all public events between March 14 and the end of May, in order to do our part to stop the spread of COVID-19…”
