COVID-19 has devastated communities around the world, but for some Indigenous groups, the pandemic posed an existential threat.
Few people are better placed to speak to the impact COVID is having on Indigenous communities than Myrna Cunningham, a Miskitu physician from the Wangki river region of Nicaragua who has spent 50 years advocating for the rights of women and Indigenous peoples at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Cunningham’s many achievements and accolades include: Fi...