Joshua Friesen

Every night when Elisabeth Root comes home, her daughter asks what she did that day.

“I’ll say, ‘Well, I told the governor this,’ or, ‘I got to help the public health department think about this,’” Root said. “And she’s like, ‘Mom, you’re actually getting to make a difference, and I think there’s lots of people who’d want to do that.’ And that’s how I feel. I think all of us as a community at Ohio State want to do something. We have this drive to help, and I’ve been handed an opportunity to be actionable.”