The nationwide social unrest in the wake of Black lives lost at the hands of police, coupled with the pandemic disproportionately affecting Black communities, quickly made one of the UVA Equity Center’s fellows change her original project. Myra Anderson has been working on creating a mental health center in Charlottesville since this past summer that would be named the Sankofa Center, a name derived from an African bird from the Akan people of Ghana that symbolizes taking the good from the past and bringing it to the present.