Three weeks after recovering from a gastrointestinal bug, Mark Mozer was working in his office when suddenly he couldn’t feel his legs anymore. His brother, Kurt, took him to the emergency room, where he found out he had Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. “For a long time, I was …

It’s a few minutes after 2 pm. The clouds mix hues of smoke and cool grays neutralizing the sun’s warmer tones for what most people would call an ugly day. Despite the aesthetics, the weather is comfortable enough for my Black-nicity T-shirt and my scattered notes that I repeatedly strive …