Abstract: Guest speaker Andrea Lawson from the Employee Assistance Office (EAO) will join us for a facilitated dialogue about mental health and taking care of ourselves during the pandemic. EAO serves faculty, staff, and graduate assistants. Andrea Lawson is an LCSW with 13 years of experience in mental health on university campuses. Most of her career has been supporting student mental health and wellbeing as a clinician and administrator, and she is pleased to join the Employee Assistance Office at UW–Madison to shift focus to the needs of employees for personal and work-related concerns. Her areas of interest are in management consulting, wellness, inclusion, mental health, interpersonal dynamics, graduate students, groups and identity development. She seeks to attend to intersecting identities and power dynamics and to cultivate space where clients can be their full selves.