How TheWrap’s 2020 Innovators Conquered the Pandemic: ‘We Don’t Want to Go Back to Normal’
It would be the understatement of the century to say that 2020 has not gone according to plan. Rocked by the worst pandemic in more than 100 years, while at the same time facing a reckoning over systemic racism decades in the making, the world heads into the stretch run of this year completely changed. For TheWrap’s 2020 Innovators, every single challenge not only tested their mettle and resolve, but provided an opportunity to lay the groundwork in hopes of building a better future. Or at least a much different future. Take Emily Ramshaw, co-founder of The 19th*, a nonprofit newsroom run by, and aimed at, women. The pandemic reared its ugly head in the United States about six months before The 19th* was set to launch. “There was like a week where my husband had COVID, and I was pushing a four-year-old out of the Zoom screen as I was trying to raise money,” Ramshaw said Thursday at the Innovators panel at TheWrap’s TheGrill conference, presented by Sony. When The 19th* did launch in August, it was the place where Kamala Harris gave her first interview after being tapped to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate. “It’s totally...
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