Interview 038 with Yolanda Moreland
Black America and Covid di Sonja J Killebrew
Note sull'episodio
Listen to microbiologist and science teacher Yolanda Moreland who identifies as Black and Panamanian American share about living in Arizona in 2019 and hearing about people experiencing the symptoms of Covid-19. She talks about teaching from home in her living room while her son was in school on the other side of their living room and having a drive-by birthday parties for her son in the summer of 2020. That year Yolanda began making Tik Tok videos to connect with her students. In 2021 she began teaching a hybrid of in-person and online science class where some students were in the classroom and some were at home in front of her on two screens. Sadly, Yolanda lost two loved ones during the pandemic and she believes their deaths may have been Covid-19 related.