Excerpt from the introduction in “The Quarantine Diaries: A Muskie View on COVID-19”

Muskies were evacuated from campus and people all over the globe were forced to stay inside. Our lives became encased in an online fortress. A lack of social interaction and toilet paper haunted us for months and Tik Tok became our only comfort. 

Muskingum University's Muskie Press – the unique internship program offered by the English Department - recently published an amazing retrospective titled "The Quarantine Diaries, The Muskie View on COVID-19."

Cheryl Carpenter serves as an Institutional Consulting Director for Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley. Based in Columbus, she is one of the team leaders serving clients primarily in the Mid-West.
“Our team’s focus is on total enterprise consulting for institutional endowment, foundation, healthcare system, and pension clients,” Cheryl explains. “We work with them to establish and implement their investment objectives, policy, strategies, and related projects.”

As President and CEO of North Valley Bank, Jim Nicholson has extensive experience in supporting small businesses, with a customer base surrounding the bank’s Zanesville headquarters and throughout Muskingum, Perry, Morgan, and Licking Counties. 

Nik Deogun, CEO of the Americas and U.S. Senior Partner of the Brunswick Group, advises global corporate clients on business critical and crisis-related communications issues.

“We help clients from a broad range of industries manage their communications at critical times, focusing on financial, investor, social, and geopolitical issues,” Nik explains. “The COVID-19 crisis brings together all of those issues at the same time, across all industries and around the globe.”