An interview with M:BRACE Series facilitator Gayle Danley, Slam Poet and MC3 Roster Artist. Gayle is leading a healing- and wellness-based professional development opportunity called "Hugging the Poet Inside You" about creative verbal self-expression and holding space that will take place at 1pm-1:45pm on Thursday, May 7, 2020. The M:BRACE Podcast is a chance to learn more about the AEMS-MSDE M:BRACE facilitators as humans, as artists, as fellow individuals living in and through the COVID-19 pandemic and to learn how the arts help us all survive.