** I am a white professional director of a medium-sized, non-profit called Cornerstone Housing for Women. If you met me, you might see my successes, but you would not see my Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. To be exact, you don’t see the triggers behind wearing a mask. Women’s experiences behind the mask during this pandemic have not been talked about enough, nor have they been at the forefront of major pandemic regulations and policy decisions. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we must come together without judgment, with compassion and with a call to end the stigma around Mental Health. We must work together to find tangible solutions for post-pandemic life that ensure everyone has access to safe, mental health supports that use a trauma-informed, gender-based lens.