Kent Watkins: Part 2 of The Progression of COVID-19 Information

 

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Kent Watkins follows up to discuss the global impact of the coronavirus. The Academy is involved through HUD with the international relations on COVID-19. He talks about black swans the uncertainties. High level and nimble leadership is necessary after the playbook is designed. He discusses how it could affect multinational trade vs. national self-sufficiency, asking how much can we depend on each other. He cites a poem that relates to the coronavirus today.

We can plan but something else comes that we aren’t prepared for (the black swan). We will never have everything solved. He talks about Johari’s Window and its relationship to the future. He relates it to international issues such as climate change.  He was involved in Paris with the climate agreement and sustainable goals. As Greenland gets greener, it become a geopolitical problem. We are continuing to examine how this changes what we do.

In past pandemics, we have had wars or societies which disappeared. On the world scene, some of the questions should be posed. He talks about how the pandemic has affected cities from a racial perspective and disparity of income. Information is needed to find out in subsidized housing who has been affected by the coronavirus.

About nanmckay

Nan has been President of Nan McKay and Associates, Inc. since 1980. She started Nan McKay Connects LLC in 2019 and has started 4 other businesses over the last 50 years. She has received numerous awards including the Allan Anderson Award of Merit from Minnesota National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the Section 8 Administrators Award, in 2018 the National Association of Women Business Owners' (NAWBO) Signature Award for Southern California, and in 2019 she was selected by NAWBO as the California Woman Business Owner of the Year. She was co-founder of Minnesota Women in Housing and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Leased Housing Association for many years. She has two buildings named after her in Minnesota, a 10-story elderly high-rise, the Nan McKay Building, and a family subsidized development, McKay Manor. Nan now hosts four podcast shows featuring stories of women empowerment, oral history makers of affordable housing and community development, and stories of ordinary people coping with COVID-19 pandemic.
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