Tori Collins is a native Chicagoan who lives and works in DC. Currently an unpublished writer, she hopes to self-publish her work in the very near future and she is also working on a new podcast, “I’m Not Telling Stories.” Her poem, “From Pandemic to Protest,” was written “as COVID-19 and the protest defending Black lives after George Floyd’s murder intersected, causing our community to take a closer look at racial inequities.” She has performed it at a reading at Busboys and Poets and also made a video that appears on the Hill Rag website (www.hillrag.com/2020/09/15/from-pandemic-to-protest).