Black Lives Matter Narratives
Listen to the vice provost and a student in dialogue about Black Lives Matter narratives during the summer of 2020.
2020
Virtual Humanity
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School shares how her leadership was founded on compassion and grace and trust and humanity.
Limits to Self Care
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate school describes the challenges she faced with practicing self care during the pandemic.
Intentional Ways of Connection
In this clip, the Dean of the Graduate School shares her leadership style.
How Do We Support Graduate Students
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate School discusses everything she and her team had to consider when the pandemic shut the university down.
Hiking
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate School shares how she and her family took up hiking during the pandemic as a way to connect with each other and the world around them.
Giving People Time Off
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School discusses the leadership decisions she made during the pandemic and how a lot of those decisions came from trusting her staff.
Give People Grace
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School describes her philosophy on work-life balance and how it came into play during the pandemic.
Dual Identity and Vulnerability
Listen as two Black women faculty commiserate about where and when they felt they could be vulnerable as they worked during the pandemic.
Doughnuts With the Dean
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school shares the creative ways in which she worked to facilitate connection among her staff and students during the pandemic.
Dean, Mother, Black Woman
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school discusses the unique set of intersectional stressors she faced during the pandemic.
The Sense of Feeling Secure Doesn’t Exist Right Now
Listen as two graduate students discuss the continued uncertainty and insecurity and vulnerability they face with the pandemic.
Putting Others Before Ourselves
In this clip, listen as two graduate students discuss the ways in which the pandemic highlighted positive and negative aspects of humanity and what they themselves take away from the pandemic.
Pandemic Paranoia and the New Normal
Listen as two graduate students commiserate about how much their lives have changed since the pandemic and the habits they maintain as a result of the pandemic.
Pandemic Cohort Support
Listen as an international grad student shares their gratitude for the support they received from their cohort during the pandemic.
Life Hitting the Brick Wall of the Pandemic
In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares the challenges and changes they faced with starting graduate school in the pandemic.
Internatinal Grad Student Experiences
In this clip, listen as an international student shares the uncertainty surrounding graduate school during the pandemic.
I Became a Whole Different Person Than I Was in 2020
In this clip, a graduate student share how the pandemic has changed them.
We Were the Only Ones Here
In this clip, listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss their particular perspective of having to go into work everyday when the rest of the world stayed home.
Thrust Into the Public’s Interest
Listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss how their work has changed since COVID and how they feel now that their work has a particular kind of spotlight as a result of the pandemic.
First Positive
In this clip, listen as the doctors who first identified COVID-19 recount the story of how they received the first positive COVID test result.
Why Did We March as a Family for BLM
In this clip, listen as a mother and son discuss memories and motivations they have of participating in the 2020 BLM marches.