Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, my bedroom has doubled as my office. I use my gold Macbook here not just for checking Facebook or YouTube videos but also for my work projects. And Zoom meetings. Lots of Zoom meetings. The walls have but paint on them, so that makes for a nice backdrop. Finally, all my business calls are conducted on my personal cell phone. I kind of like being able to work from home, though I do miss getting out there and making a difference with my colleagues and the community.
Quarantine would not make that big of a difference with the International Cultural Consortium (ICC), since the partners of the organization are scattered across the country. Liston Bochette, who I mentioned the other day, is in Florida; we also have Dr. Bonnie Tiell, the professor of Sport Management at Tiffin University in Ohio, then there is Josh Henson, an attorney based in the Washington, D.C. area. Meanwhile, Iowa is where my office/bedroom is located, but I do not hold a financial stake in the ICC and thus am not a partner.
Even so, I have an important role in this venture, working to get the partners’ message across through such initiatives as a news release and looking at the ICC’s present logo, both of which I have done on this Memorial Day. In a short amount of time, I am learning a great deal more about what Liston, Josh, and Dr. Tiell hope to accomplish with their work, and I take those objectives just as seriously as they do.