A pair of school reunions this year, plus emerging from the shutdowns of the pandemic, restarted Michelle Chikaonda's habit of wondering who she would be in an alternate universe. But this t…
The painful end of a long friendship helped teach Michelle Chikaonda about the power of owning her own story"thanks also to a return to another favorite Hamilton song.
This year, Michelle Chikaonda marked the anniversary of her father's passing with a trip to see Hamilton in Philly, which reminded her that we can't control life's chaos"but we can find the …
When Michelle Chikaonda continued her very own pandemic festival of time-loop movies, she found out that the phrase "it's time" has more than one meaning.
It was easier to keep spirits up at the start of the pandemic shutdown, when we thought the disruption would be short. Nine months later, Michelle Chikaonda finds unexpected help in two movi…
In a class on combatting conspiracy theories and misinformation in the era of COVID-19, I teach teenagers to recognize dangerous distractions from reality. But what about the conspiracies th…
One of the most challenging things in the COVID-19 pandemic is trying to be okay when everything around us is not. After facing her own grief, Michelle Chikaonda finds that rather than merel…