On June 17, 2020, Tulane University held the Homemade Mask (Virtual) Summit, organized by the Just Wanna Quilt team of Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Hailey Barnett, Whitney Chatmon, John Spartz, and Becky Blank. Hosted by Newcomb Institute, and co-hosted by the Phyllis Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, and the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More information can be found at http://www.justwannaquilt.com.

Homemade Mask (Virtual) Summit is where we celebrate the entrepreneurial activities of the mask makers around the country, talk to industrial hygienists about how to safely move around in this world (including how many people should be in an elevator at one time), talk to the scientists, and connect the compassion of caring and making masks with BLM.

The audio link to Day One:

Part 1 Guests include:

Our Call to Action
Edith Gross, Judy Walker, Seth Hackler, Whitney Chatmon, Hailey Barnett, and @Tal Sherman.

Mask Mobilization
Alexa Magyari, co-organizer, a Ph.D. public health student at U.C. Berkeley, and an early organizer between hospitals and makers of masks.
Becky Blank of We Have Masks, The Mask Makers Collective,
Gina Livingston of Sewing Masks for Area Hospitals - Atlanta
Cathy Dickey of Face Mask Shortage (New Orleans local area) Sewing Initiative
Sophie Faroushani and Alex Woodbridge TUSOM COVID Response Group, Tulane Medical Students
Jayna Zweimal of Masks4humanity
@Scott Bishop, @Chippawa Thomas, and @Christine Schnittka from Auburn University.

Science and Medicine
Dr. @Roy Rando, industrial hygienist Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Mark Wilson, industrial hygienist @ Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Chad Roy, Director of Infectious Disease Aerobiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center
Dr. Scott Segal, Prof of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest, with a forthcoming article on evaluating homemade mask materials.

Keynote: Dr. Jocelyn Songer, Masks Unmasked: A Look at the Science Behind Fabric Masks for COVID-19, founder of MakerMask.org (a great site of information). Dr. Jocelyn Songer is the founder of MakerMask.org, a group of volunteers providing science-based mask information and designs to community mask makers by studying and testing them. She holds a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology from MIT.

Joel Sellers: Q and A with Dr. Songer (with sample masks)

A Culture of Caring: From Masks to BLM
Saru Matambanadzo, Tulane Law School.

That was Day 1.