Listen to Dr. Gail Young, PhD in Health Behavior, share about living with her husband and two young children in Florida during the Covid-19 pandemic. She was born in Jamaica and lived there until she was 19-years-old when she matriculated to Howard University. She shares that part of her ancestry is Scottish descent, Indian (from India), and African. She identifies as Black Caribbean American.

Dr. Young shares: “Twelve years ago I was a PhD graduate in public health… During the pandemic it was such a hard time for me, because everything that I had been trained to do and everything I knew... I'm literally now a stay-at-home mom... And so, I was like, I'm not being used… I need to be volunteering, or I need to be getting a job that I can help in that capacity and…it was very, very challenging for me to not be able to serve in that wa ...