You can tell Mayah Bernstein is excited only by the way she checks her watch.
She sits on the stoop in front of Dreyfoos, glancing at her pink Watch Shark in five minute intervals. Perking her back into needle-straight posture, she asks people without masks if they need one (with her piercing gaze, they do, in fact, always need one). Yet, nothing breaks her composition. After dealing with the city for weeks, after frustrating herself about Instagram performatism not translating onto the streets, after the worries of low turn-out and a conveniently placed once-in-a-century pandemic, she sits on the stoop unphased even when local news outlet WPTV requests an exclusive interview.
What we mean to say is that Bernstein is surprisingly chill.
One of the masterminds of the Equity Parade, Mayah Bernstein, worked alongside fellow seniors Auguste Wood and Kailyn Bryant to take part in what has been a long summer of racially-inspired protests in response to police brutality.