'As a community-minded health care provider, Aron King is used to disseminating information to the public. King furthered that outreach by co-creating the Barbershop Project, which raised awareness of Black men’s health matters.

He and fellow nurse Carter Todd created programs that engaged men on a variety of subjects like hypertension and diabetes. There was one topic, however, that rendered him silent: mental health.

“Carter and I had been doing videos on aspects of men’s health, focusing mostly on gun violence and we had a couple other topics we talked about like COVID-19,” King says. “There was a small segment on mental health, but I was never really comfortable with the topic of mental health, so it was never something I would speak on.”'