The next time you see this mask I designed, it’ll be in the National Museum of American History!

Linda Falcão
2 min readJan 23, 2024

Betsy Ross 2020: The New Patriotism

Early on in the pandemic, I was a member of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) Baltimore, a group of women who sewed to create cloth face masks for the hospitals in the area. I don’t sew, but I sourced material (elastic was a big score back in…

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Linda Falcão

US Presidential Scholar; Author; Rabble rouser; Founder, America Serves and the Giving Women Control Fund