The cover of the fall 2020 edition of the Western Carolina University Magazine provides a small portrait of the many ways the COVID-19 global pandemic has affected our faculty, staff and students.

While in-front of the camera, we asked "how has COVID-19 and the civil unrest affected you and your community?" Which elicited the moments you see captured here.

Inside this issue of the WCU Magazine, we take a look at how our Catamount community displayed innovation, creativeness and a willingness to support Western North Carolina during a time of great adversity.

Portraits above are of Channa De Silva, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, senior Hannah Price, a Natural Resource Management major with a focus in Forestry, Jill Jacobs, Marketing Manager of Bardo Arts Center, Tacquice Davis, Associate Director of Intercultural Affairs, Dean Paulk, Assistant Director of Intercultural Affairs, Aaliyah Swimmer a senior English, professional writing major with a minor in Cherokee studies, junior Social Work major Margarita Lopez, senior Donnavan Spencer, is a criminal justice major.