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Editor Wendy Welch on Now, Appalachia
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English - January 31, 2023 18:27 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBBooks Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews editor and nonfiction author Wendy Welch about her latest book, "Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do: Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Wendy is the the executive director of the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium and the author, coauthor, or editor of six books, including Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia (also from Ohio University Press). She advocates for social justice in health care and other critical areas of development across Appalachia.