Every week, The People’s CDC, a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, and advocates working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19, releases a weather report. The volunteer-run organization sifts through data that’s becoming harder and harder to find on the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website. In a clear report, they inform citizens about transmission levels, new variants, wastewater levels, and hospitalizations, providing us with a snapshot of how the virus is progressing.

Life is made up of two kinds of things: the real — the things that are, and the unreal — the things that might be. For Haitian-born Brooklynite Yrbenka Arthus, the passion, drive and unstoppable energy that fuels her comes from her ability to “Feel the Unreal” — to imagine what might be and make it a reality.