On April 7, 2021 the group in the photo celebrated one year of on-line doctoral networking and support. The idea for the group emerged in March 2020, just days before the very first COVID-19 lock-down in Ontario. Julie Petrin - then in her 5th year of her PhD in Rehabilitation Science - and Marcia Finlayson, her advisor, came up with the idea during one of their regular check-in meetings. Anticipating the isolation that was about to come, Julie expressed concern about staying focused and moving forward in the very last stages of her dissertation work. Together,