New Yorker Features Amy Acton Profile

Nov. 5, 2020

Amy Stearns Acton, M.D. (’90), “calls for recognition of the country’s pain and division” in a profile published by The New Yorker magazine.

In a lengthy article titled “How America Can Avoid Dual Cataclysms,” Paige Williams talks with Dr. Acton, Ohio’s former health director. No one has succeeded Dr. Acton in that position since she resigned from in June.

Williams writes, “Acton had given no media interviews since leaving government. She agreed to talk to me because she believes that, as we enter a dire pandemic phase, paired with a potentially tumultuous post-election period, the country needs, in its wellness ‘playbook,’ a long-term emotional-survival strategy.”

Read the full article in The New Yorker.