Liz

Liz is a second-year undergraduate student. She is the daughter of an immigrant and a refugee. “I was really frustrated with the university, because I felt they made their decision based on the assumption that everyone has a stable home to go to, a home they wanna go to, which is definitely not true.” Interview…

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…

Anya

Anya* is an international student who graduated from her master’s program in fall 2019. “So I am in College Park and everybody is home. So it’s kind of become a ghost town here. I just moved into a new place and I barely know my roommate…” *Pseudonym provided by the interviewee. Content warning for brief…

Andrea

Andrea is a high school art teacher and senior advisor. “I don’t always hear from these kids. And it’s scary. It is very scary, even their artwork. I can’t display all the artwork that they’re doing right now on this website I’m doing because a lot of it is starting to get really dark.” Interview…

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…

Rachel

Rachel is a recent college graduate with a B.A. in Psychology from George Washington University.  “I’m a big fan of mindfulness, and there are a lot of benefits, so mindfulness is being aware, [or] present…[and] there are mindfulness exercises such as, a body scan, mindfulness meditation… There’s a bunch of apps for it, Headspace is…

Jeremy

Jeremy is a college student at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. “Being together as a family, that helped. That’s been nice. I mean, it was already hard enough that we couldn’t go visit [my grandfather in the hospital]…If [my sister] was still in Oklahoma and I was in Baltimore, that would be…