Listen to Black American Shanina Robinson who also identifies as Jamaican-American share what it was like to work-from-home in Queens, New York while raising two sons under six-years-old and how she engaged in active-compassionate communication with her husband during the State stay-at-home orders, which helped them in the process of buying a home during the pandemic. She grew up in South Jamaica, Queens.

Shanina shares how she sadly lost her grandfather to Alzheimer’s a week after the stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. She shares how she sadly lost her younger brother who had a seizure disorder during the pandemic. While she wasn’t able to visit the hospital where her father needed heart surgery and her sister needed an organ transplant because of the hospital’s policy prohibiting visitors to prevent the spread o ...