In the summer of 2014, I found myself in helpless tears as I watched a country I loved succumb to the trauma of an Ebola epidemic.
In 2012, I lived and worked as a local girl’s club co-creator and organizer in Yekepa, Liberia and visited Monrovia on numerous occasions to gather ideas from other organizations. In order to create a successful and culturally appropriate girl’s club, I spent a lot of time gathering information on Liberia’s culture, art scene and history.
While I watched the news from my home in the U.S., I could vividly picture the extreme chaos and fear that was overtaking the same streets and alleys that I had, only two years before, danced and played along with my young Liberian comrades.