Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school discusses the unique set of intersectional stressors she faced during the pandemic. She shares her frustration and exhaustion from sitting through meetings after George Floyd was killed. As a the only Black woman dean who was at home with young kids, she lived the dual pandemics and often wonder if people around her realized just how much the world changed in the wake of Floyd’s murder especially for her as a mother and specifically a mother of young Black boys. Her frustration emanated from meetings that ran “business-as-usual” and made no room to acknowledge or even understand all the different directions she was being pulled in.
I’m troubleshooting zoom, then I go to a meeting, then somebody wants a snack, then I go to a meeting, then it’s lunchtime, then I go to a meeting…
