Balancing Escape Versus Connection
Listen as Resilience Lab staff discuss what it felt like to seek out and receive information about the pandemic in order to have some sense of understanding of what was going on.
Listen as Resilience Lab staff discuss what it felt like to seek out and receive information about the pandemic in order to have some sense of understanding of what was going on.
Listen as the Director of the Resilience Lab describes how she participated in efforts to care for staff and their mental health during the pandemic under the leadership of the Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.
Listen as members of the Resilience Lab and UW staff discuss how they adapted their work to being online.
Listen as the director of the Resilience Lab describes her perspective and the decisions she made during the pandemic.
Listen to students share their experiences figuring out how to balance their lives and schoolwork.
Listen to college students talk about how their friendships changed during the pandemic.
Listen to two students talk about the disorientating experience of starting college during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen to a student talk about their professor’s concerns and experience with COVID-19.
Listen to two college students discuss the relative difficulty of classes during the early pandemic.
Listen to two college students commiserate about their academic challenges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen to a college student talk about his experience working for the Census Bureau in 2020.
Listen to two college students talk about realizing they would not be going back in-person the next school year.
Listen to the vice provost and a student in dialogue about Black Lives Matter narratives during the summer of 2020.
Listen to a student athlete share his dream of building a “Black Wall Street” in Washington State.
Listen to a student reflect on what it was like to move back home because of pandemic lockdown.
Listen to a student share with the vice provost what he learned about himself during the pandemic.
Listen to a college football player talk about his experience as the COVID-19 pandemic started and the university closed down.
Listen to the vice provost and a student talk about what it was like in Seattle in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Listen to a student athlete share about his aspirations to the vice provost, who reflects on how we should see student athletes in their full humanity.
professors would make virtual exams harder than in-person exams due to their lack of trust.
Listen to a student talk about the disparities faced by Black communities that were exacerbated by COVID-19.
Listen to a grocery store worker share her perspective as an essential workers through the most intense part of quarantine.
Listen to two students discuss their different college orientation experiences, one pre-COVID and one post-COVID.
Listen to a grocery store worker share their memories of sanitation duties during the early pandemic.
Listen to a college student talk about confusions in understanding pandemic policies.
Listen to a student describe her daily life during COVID and the feelings of isolation.
Listen to two college students reflect on how the pandemic continues to impact life.
Listen to a college student share how the COVID-19 pandemic made them aware of things they didn’t think about before.
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate School shares how her leadership was founded on compassion and grace and trust and humanity.
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate school describes the challenges she faced with practicing self care during the pandemic.
In this clip, the Dean of the Graduate School shares her leadership style.
Listen as the Dean of the Graduate School discusses everything she and her team had to consider when the pandemic shut the university down.
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.
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.
Listen as two Black women faculty commiserate about where and when they felt they could be vulnerable as they worked during the pandemic.
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school talks about how she experienced the dual pandemic in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
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.
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school discusses the unique set of intersectional stressors she faced during the pandemic.
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school vulnerably shares how she had to be a touchstone for her family, students, friends, and co-workers.
Listen as two graduate students discuss the continued uncertainty and insecurity and vulnerability they face with the pandemic.
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.
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.
In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares the challenges and changes they faced with starting graduate school in the pandemic.
In this clip, listen as an international student shares the uncertainty surrounding graduate school during the pandemic.
In this clip, a graduate student share how the pandemic has changed them.
In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares where they received support from during the pandemic.
Listen as two graduate students discuss the altruism that emerged in the way people behave towards each other after the pandemic.
Listen as two graduate students discuss the ways in which they wish their department had considered supporting graduate students in more ways.
Listen as an Indigenous leader shares his experiences early in the pandemic as a middle school teacher.
Listen as two Indigenous leaders share how they navigated teaching, working, and parenting from home during the pandemic.
Listen as a husband and wife discuss what it looked like for them to grieve the loss of loved ones during the pandemic.
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.
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.
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.
Listen as the doctor who first identified COVID-19 in the U.S. recount their memory of drawing blood from the first COVID patient.
In this clip, listen as the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. share how the virus has changed how much knowledge and interest the next generation of doctor’s has on respiratory viruses.
Listen as the doctors and scientists who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. discuss how they were able to provide their community with support because they were on the frontlines and doing the research.
Listen as one of the doctors who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. shares a memory from the pandemic and how she provided care to patients amid shortages and safety procedures.
In this clip, listen as the doctors and scientists who identified COVID-19 in the U.S. share how challenging it was for them to find childcare during the pandemic.
Listen as two UW doctors and scientists commiserate over the exhaustion they feel and not having a sense for when they will be able to take a break.
In this clip, listen as a mother and son discuss memories and motivations they have of participating in the 2020 BLM marches.
In this clip, listen as a mother and son discuss the challenges of working and doing school virtually.
Listen as a mother and son discuss what it’s like for the world to reopen as the pandemic subsides a bit.
Listen as a mother discusses her decision behind participating in the 2020 BLM protests with her children.
Listen as a son shares with his mother his philosophy behind being involved in BLM – it is a way for him to be involved in putting kindness in where others might put hatred.
Listen as a young boy shares the flexibility he had when learning at home because he could wear the clothes he wanted and spend his free time how he wanted.
Listen as a young boy shares his experiences with online school during the pandemic.
Listen as a young boy shares his excitement at receiving a letter from Kamala Harris after writing to advocate for people experiencing homelessness in a park nearby his home.
Listen as a mother shares just how much time her family spent around the kitchen table during the pandemic.
Listen as a son share just how much he loves learning and how much he enjoys being part of and learning about politics.
Listen as a UW staff member shares how she became extremely intentional with using her time with students to check in on their mental, physical, and emotional health during the pandemic.
Listen as a mother and son reminisce about how they spent time together as family during the pandemic.
In this clip, a mother shares with her son some of her fears around the uncertainty of the pandemic and how vulnerable she felt because of the uncertainty.
In this clip, a mother and son discuss how COVID-19 changed how their family time looked and how differently they socialize now.
In this clip, listen as a mother shares how the pandemic allowed her to be present for her family in ways she hadn’t been able to before the pandemic.
In this clip, listen as a mother shares one part of pandemic life that she was grateful for – being able to hold her family when they hurt.
Black husband vs White wife’s take on media coverage of Capitol riots vs BLM protests.
Black man police officer sharing with Black woman police officer his feelings about how defund discourse is wrong one
Black woman police officer sharing with Black man police officer story of white police officer calling her “colored.”
Black woman police officer sharing with Black man police officer story of vet office refusing to take her money because she’s a cop.
Black man and Black woman police officer dialoguing on new leadership in police department.
Black man police officer shares his perspective on the chief of police leaving and the impact of her leaving.
Black woman police officer shares her disappointment with leadership in this moment of police accountability and racial reckoning and how dialogue was limited and their community relationships were devalued.
Black man and Black woman police officer dialoguing on political atmosphere in this moment.
Black man sharing with Black woman police officer on the missed opportunity to see how race and social justice initiative failed.
Black man sharing w Black woman police officer on community race connections.
Black man police officer sharing with Black woman police officer about being alone now.
Two Black Gen X era sisters, one West Coast, one East, talking the summer of 2020 about microaggressions during the dual pandemics
Black friend describes her desire to find an online creative community for people of color to share their art.
Black friend talks about the challenges of finding therapists and seeking mental health services during the pandemic
Black friend describes how White roommate has become main support because they can be in person
Interracial friends talk about how racist science as a field is especially in terms of population samples
Black friend describes how her isolation during the pandemic has made her see alone time more positively
Black friend talks about how watching police brutality on social media is a major stressor and makes her feel sick and tense
Black friend talks about how stressful it is to be on social media and how it no longer is a platform to destress
Interracial friends talk about how videos of police violence do or don’t mobilize individuals