This issue is our final one of this momentous year, as we continue to struggle with the Covid-19 pandemic. In the US, we are confronting an intense reckoning with racism and its insidious effects on all aspects of our lives. At the time this issue is published, the United States 2020 presidential election campaign will be close to its conclusion. While this editor writes from a distinctly US-centric perspective, it is fair to say that the outcome of the election has global implications. Perhaps I suffer from a myopic historical perspective, but at the time this editorial is written, it feels like an unprecedented time.

On a personal note, this is written in the waning days of my time on the front lines of community mental health work; my career as chief medical officer of a large agency is concluding on the heels of months of immersion in efforts to address the myriad effects of Covid-19 while bidding farewell to people with whom I have worked for over two decades. It has been a time of celebrating peoples’ remarkable journeys but also a time of grief. The word “bittersweet,” while perhaps overused, often came to mind.

Through all of this, the work of the journal has continued. I am deeply grateful for the many people who persevered and continued to contribute in so many valuable ways. My team from Springer, Teresa Krauss, publishing editor; Lakshmi Somasundaram, journal editorial office assistant, and Nandhini Pesala, production editor, have been unfailingly kind and patient when responding to the many emails from this fledgling editor.

Our editorial board has been engaged and helpful. I extend a hearty welcome to our many new members who bring broad and pertinent perspectives to this endeavor. We are working together to continue to address matters of social justice with respect not only to the work we do in our communities but also to the work we do as scholars.

This is the journal of the American Association for Community Psychiatry. The members of this group have inspired me as they have addressed with grace, fortitude, and courage the problem of systemic racism and its profound effects on our patients and ourselves. One goal for the next year is to bring that work into the pages of this journal.

I remain deeply grateful to the many people who contribute their work to the journal. You are the essence of what we produce.

Lastly, there are our reviewers from 2020 who are listed below. I do not have adequate words to thank all of you. Through the course of this year, I have had glimpses of your lives. None of us has immunity. You have been overwhelmed with the demands of work and family. Some have been schooling children. Others have been ill and there are many among us who have lost loved ones. Despite that, so many have completed reviews with thoughtfulness. Through our many exchanges and from reading your comments, along with the work of our authors, I have learned so much from so many.

With gratitude.

Nasser Abdelrasheed

Olufemi Adigun

Awais Aftab

Ruchita Agrawal

Mubeen Akhtar

Manar Alazzam

Tom Alexander

Alean Al-Krenawi

Carl Martin Allwood

Jordi Alonso

Laura Altweck

Jennifer Alvidrez

Lisa Andermann

Victor Animasahun

Josephine Anthony

Cynthia Arfken

Christina Arredondo

Amit Arya

Sarah Asad

Lee Ascherman

Brittanie Atteberry-Ash

Elizabeth Austin

Abby Bailin

Maartan Bak

Nicole Baker

Parul Bakkshi

G Balamurugan

Joseph Banken

Brittany Bannon

Miya Barnett

Stacey Barrenger

Ashley Batastini

Johanna Baumgardt

John Belcher

Nontembeko Bila

Daniel Bilsker

Badari Birur

Michael Blank

Andrea Bosco

Jason Boudreaux

Sally Bradford

Orna Braun-Lewensohn

Teri Brister

Jonathan Brown

Julia Browne

Mihaela Bucuta

Anne Buist

Sameer Bukhari

Jane Burke-Miller

Tom Burns

Lorenzo Burti

Matthias Burzler

Andrew Byrne

Carissa Cabán -Alemán

Leopoldo Cabassa

Mary Ann Campbell

Lucilene Cardoso

Marie-Carmen Castillo

Uttara Chari

Bal Chauhan

Jason Cheng

Pu Cheng

Amy Cheung

Peter Chien

Lin Ching-Lan

Mi-Kyoung Cho

Yoon Joon Choi

Mimi Choy Brown

Julie Chronister

Gabriele Cipriani

Robin Clark

Isabel Clarke

Stephen Clift

Michael Coffey

Carl I. Cohen

Andrea Cole

Patrick Corrigan

Lisa Cosgrove

Sibel Coskun

Robert Cotes

Francine Cournos

Bevin Croft

Rita Cronise

Mario Cruz

James Cullinan

Kacey Dalzell

Kay Dantzler

Sarantsetseg Davaasambuu

Larry Davidson

Dimitry Davydow

Liselotte de Mooij

Stacie DeFreitas

Natacha DeGenna

Paolo DelVecchio

Frederic Denis

Ron Diamond

Faith Dickerson

Sara Dodd

David Dodell-Feder

Carol Drolen

Julien Dubreucq

Randolph Dupont

Songül Duran

Sarira El-Den

Edel Ennis

Sharon D. Eversley

Laura Faherty

Marianne Farkas

Shameem Fatima

Seena Fazel

Jacqueline Feldman

Andrea Fiorillo

Deborah Fisk

Michael Flaum

Marie-Josée Fleury

Karen Fondacaro

Joanne Forbes

Bruce Fried

Erica Frydenberg

John Gallagher

S. Therese Garrett

Ramraj Gautam

Alida Gertz

Bishwajit Ghose

Vasudha Gidugu

Dennis Gilbride

Leslie Gise

Neil Glickman

Stephen M. Goldfinger

Matthew Goldman

David Goldsmith

Christorpher Gordon

Robert Grahn

Scott Gray

Catherine Greeno

Naveen Grover

Georgina Guilera

Swapnil Gupta

Rebeca Gutierrez Estrada

Ann Hackman

Hyeouk Hahm

Carina Hakansson

Seyyed Hakimzadeh

Ayman Hamdan-Mansour

Stephen Hamerdinger

Michelle Hampton

Manal Hanfi

Eric Hardiman

Courtenay Harding

Kate Hardy

Jill Harrison

Julian Hasford

Robert Hawkins

Holly Heikkila

Liat Helpman

Paula Helu-Brown

Claire Henderson

Lisa Henshaw

Sabrina Hermosilla

Wendy Hicks

Donald Hilty

Johanna Katharina Hohls

Iva Holmerová

Lisa Hooper

Kim Hopper

Angela Hovey

Shannon Hughes

Marcia Hunt

Akbar Husain

Theddeus Iheanacho

Maria Ioannou

Farah Islam

Leah Jacobs

Sun Joo Jang

Alexiss Jeffers

Yanping Jiang

Annalee Johnson

Nev Jones

Ashraf Kagee

Akfer Kahilogulları

GS Kaloiya

Nuray Karanci

George Keepers

Suneeta Kercood

Nick Kerman

Matthew Kerr

Tahir Khan

Myriam Khlat

Sean Kidd

Edward Kim

Wooksoo Kim

Angie Kim

David Kingdon

Suzanne Kinsky

Anne Klee

Patrick Koga

Hans Kroon

Travis Labrum

Jeffrey Lacasse

Paul Lakin

Vijaya Lakshmi

Walter Lamendola

Sandra Lane

Michael Lang

Brian Leany

Sei-young Lee

Stephen Leff

Douglas L. Leslie

Karin Lewicki

Todd Lewicki

Donna Londino

Vincent Lorant

Mario Luciano

Matthew MacNeil

Stacey Manser

Stephanie Marhefka

Toby Martinez

David McDaid

Mark McGee

Kaye McGinty

Colleen McKay

Hunter McQuistion

Kedar Mehta

Irfan Mian

Rebecca Miller

Lisa Mistler

Elizabeth Mollard

Joanna Moncrieff

Tally Moses

Alavi Mousa

Louise Newman

Anthony Ng

Merete Nordentoft

Keith Norris

Michael Olasoji

Mary Olson

Sibel Orsel

Laysha Ostrow

Bernard Pachoud

Paula Panzer

Joe Parks

Heena Parveen

Ana Moreno Perez

Inge Petersen

Emma Peterson

James Petrovich

Ioana Podina

Andrew Pomerantz

Celia Quiles

Ernest Quimby

George Rachiotis

Jennifer Rae

Mark Ragins

Parashar Ramanuj

Suvira Ramlall

Lori Raney

John Read

Sanika Rege

Usama Rehman

Dan Reidenberg

Andrew Reyes

Maryse Richards

Michelle Roley-Roberts

Heide Rollings

Kamalika Roy

John Rozel

William Rubin

Olga Runciman

Rami Saadeh

Sara Sadiq

Yahya Safari

Waqar Sakoon

Manikandanesan Sakthive

Bertha Salazar-González

Mark Salzer

Gokul Sarveswaran

Ramotse Saunders

Deborah Scharf

James Schuster

Julian Schwarz

K. Shanivaram Reddy

Sarah Shea

Stephanie Shill

Ruth Shim

Peter Shin

Nicole Shirvani

Herb Shon

Martha Shumway

Elizabeth Siantz

Goodman Sibeko

Magenta Simmons

Christopher Simmons

Scott Simpson

Ritesh Singh

Bjarne Vind Soerensen

Emiliano Soldini

Phyllis Solomon

Jennifer Spaulding-Givens

Paul Spicer

Lisa St. George

Steven Starks

Sandra Steingard

Sigrid Stjernswärd

Ellyson Stout

David Swenson

Santos T. (ou T.C.)

Suqin Tang

Monica Taylor-Desir

Natasha Thapar-Olmos

R Thara

Natasha Thomas

Hans Thulesius

Sami Timimi

KK Tong

Karen Tonsing

William Torrey

Hector Tsang

Jean Turner

Kristi Urry

Marie-Pier Vandette

Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe

Shikha Verma

Ruvanee Vilhauer

Lina Villegas

Sarah Y. Vinson

Elizabeth Walker

Bo Wang

Emma Watson

Ann Webb

Penelope Weller

Joseph Westermeyer

DeJuan White

Cassie Wicken

Jens Wikström

Charity Wilkinson

Cathleen Willging

James Williams

Kristin Wyatt

Peter Yelllowlees

Cheng-Fang Yen

Yoewon Yoon

Michelle Zechner

Chengchao Zhou

Rachel Zinns