Natasha

Natasha is a mental health therapist licensed in the state of Maryland. She currently works under Choice Clinical Services, a women-led mental health practice with two locations in College Park and one in Greenbelt. As a therapist, a lot of clients think you have everything together, and it’s so not true—like, nobody does. I’ve never…

Sandy

Sandy works at the National Organization for Women. “We have been fighting for the rights of, y’know, women and poor families for years and so we’re just … still doing that. Of course, right now it’s so much more important because you have all these people without health care and… paid leave, and so they’re…

Jo

Jo is a systems engineer that currently works as an instructor for Code in the Schools, a non-profit organization serving the Baltimore City Public Schools System. They are queer, Black, and Christian. “Being able to tell stories and the art of storytelling and the art of building relationships…and actually starting that healing process [is something]…

Rita

Rita lives by herself and has kidney disease. “It’s gonna be a very strange world if this goes on a whole lot longer.” Interview highlights: “I miss my friends. I miss getting hugs. The one thing I wonder about is what this does or will do over a period of time to people’s relationships with…

Amanda

Amanda* is a 5th grade teacher for students with learning disabilities at a county elementary school in Maryland. “The biggest challenge is getting students to show up.” *Pseudonym provided by the interviewee. Interview highlight: “It’s been a little rough trying to get people to get online. We’re trying to figure out things like learning plans,…

Andrew

Andrew Collins is the Assistant Principal of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, a private Catholic school, in Olney, Maryland. “On Friday, before we left, we had three different training rooms, for teachers who were either fairly comfortable, fairly advanced with Google classroom and other iPad devices and apps, other people were kind of…

Daniel

Daniel* is a Nigerian resident that talks about the impact of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria. “We’ve been at home, let’s say, four weeks now. Food, money, no work, no jobs, no nothing. Everywhere is just…on lockdown. Everyone needs money, everyone needs food to eat. Some Nigerians are even breaking the [stay-at-home] order because, according…

Dr. Trovato

Dr. Trovato is the interim director of Medical Rehabilitation at Kennedy Krieger and an assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.  “The department I’m in really had to ramp up telehealth, train people to do what they’ve never done before via video. I’m in a specialty that is very hands-on so it was [interesting] trying to…

Richard

Richard is a recently laid-off graduating senior at American University. He is originally from Connecticut, and currently resides in Washington, D.C. “[W]hat I’m getting in unemployment is enough to pay my rent. Yeah. Cool. So am I gonna eat now? Like, would you like me to eat the floorboards? Like I don’t understand what you’re…