First Person: A Moment for Reflection...And New Beginnings

Hershel Shanks’s passing and the transition to a new editor is an opportunity for BAR to honor the past while looking forward to new horizons.

Like many of you, we enter this summer season both deeply aware of the incredible pain and loss our global community has suffered during the past year but also hopeful and optimistic for a return to a better and more resilient “normal” that will bring new opportunities and possibilities. This issue of BAR, in many ways, is a reflection of this unprecedented moment.