I Ran with Maud — Now What?

Jessica Camacho
6 min readMay 12, 2020

The run continues . . .

Photo by Fachry Zella Devandra on Unsplash

This past weekend, on what would have been Ahmaud Arbery’s 26th birthday, people across the country ran 2.23 miles as form of solidarity, as a way to demand justice in his brutal killing.

I ran. I ran exactly 2.23 miles to mark the date it occurred, and I ran it on his birthday — May 8th. I ran because I was compelled to run. I saw the video, I read the story, and I…

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Jessica Camacho

Writer of intertwining topics—things are much more interconnected than we realize . . .