| Ana Barros 04/26/2022 |
Ana Barros, a teacher at Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, discusses her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and her limited amount of teaching experience before the pandemic hit in 2020. Barros describes… |
| Brad Bandy 05/18/2022 |
Brad Bandy talks about how he got involved in working with refugee communities, specifically his participation in college service trips to Cambodia and Kosovo during periods of military conflicts. After… |
| Briana Hefley-Shepard 11/14/2021 |
Briana Hefley-Shepard, an English as a Second Language teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, talks about her background and experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares how she first came to know of the… |
| Bryan Padgett 04/21/2022 |
Bryan Padgett, a 2002 graduate in Speech Communications from Oklahoma State University (OSU), shares his experience growing up outside of Waco, Texas as well as his faith background and how he felt called… |
| Crys Davis 04/07/2022 |
Crys Davis, science professor at Northern Oklahoma College and graduate of Oklahoma State University, discusses her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes how her and her family remained… |
| Emmalie Green 04/07/2022 |
Emmalie Green, current college student at Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about her high school experience during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes some of the ways she navigated… |
| Glenna Wallace 05/27/2022 |
Glenna Wallace, Chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, discusses her background and experiences as the first female chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Wallace discusses some of the… |
| Greg Adams 03/24/2022 |
Greg Adams discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on inner city high school athletics. He shares how he became interested in sports and in coaching. He also talks about some of his success as a… |
| Heather Spiegel 12/21/2021 |
Heather Spiegel, professor of nursing at Eastern Oklahoma State College, talks about her education and background in nursing and hospice care in southeastern Oklahoma, receiving a masters from the University… |
| Janice Edmiston & Ceasar Williams 05/24/2022 |
Ceasar and Janice Williams describe their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ceasar, an active member of the Ponca tribe, talks about how the pandemic affected his participation in ceremonies, dances,… |
| Jared Taylor 12/07/2021 |
Jared Taylor, Oklahoma State University (OSU) faculty and former state epidemiologist of Oklahoma, talks about his background and education starting in Virginia and eventually receiving his PhD in veterinary… |
| Jean Niyondiko 09/01/2022 |
Jean Niyondiko, pastor of Unbound Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, talks about growing up in a large family in Burundi. He describes moving to Bujumbura to earn a psychology degree and his work rehabilitating… |
| Jennifer Lankford & Sherry Cook 05/27/2022 |
Jennifer Lankford and Sherry Cook discuss their personal and work-related experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. As employees of the George J. Captain Library at the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma… |
| Jenny Briggs 05/19/2022 |
Jenny Briggs, program director of Amplify Youth Health Collective, describes her experience growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and her career as a sexual health educator. She talks about the work Amplify does… |
| Jenny Kress 03/29/2022 |
Jenny Kress, general manager of Cheever's Cafe in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, discusses her experience in the restaurant industry in Oklahoma City and the professional and personal impact of the COVID-19… |
| Karen Allen 03/08/2022 |
Karen Allen, critical care physician at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, talks about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when the hospital was preparing for large amounts of patients. She describes… |
| Kelli Rader 02/14/2022 |
Kelli Rader, regional administrative director for the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) of District 3, talks about her experiences at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic including her and the… |
| Kristin Herr 04/28/2022 |
Lawton Public Library director Kristin Herr shares her experience working in the library during the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about how the library's services had to adapt to the changing needs of the… |
| Madison Williams 04/18/2022 |
Madison Williams talks about her experience as a student at Oklahoma State University during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in the second semester of her freshman year, she describes the effects of the… |
| Mary Clarke 06/02/2022 |
Dr. Mary Clarke, a family medicine physician in Stillwater, Oklahoma, describes her experience as a medical professional throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. She talks about how she heard about the disease… |
| Matt Posey 04/08/2022 |
Matt Posey discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on two small rural school districts in Oklahoma. He talks about his long career in education and in particular his twenty-seven years in Oilton… |
| Michael DuBois 03/02/2022 |
Michael DuBois, operator of Eisenhour Funeral Home in Blanchard, talks about his background and education with degrees in sociology and funeral service education from Oklahoma State University and the… |
| Michael Forsythe 04/11/2022 |
Michael Forsythe, Genius Admin at the Apple Store in Oklahoma City, talks about growing up in a military town in North Carolina. He discusses how he started working remotely for Apple in 2013 before eventually… |
| Najah-Amatullah Hylton 03/15/2022 |
Najah-Amatullah Hylton, a high school teacher in Oklahoma City, talks about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uneasiness around how long it would last. She discusses the plans implemented… |
| Preston Bobo 04/24/2022 |
Preston Bobo talks about growing up in Edmond, Oklahoma and working for his family's emergency response company, Environmental Management, Inc. He describes how he started working for the company while… |
| Randa Parrish 04/15/2022 |
Randa Parrish, owner of Prairie Quilt Shop in Hennessey, Oklahoma, recalls her decision to buy a fabric store in 2001 and some of the challenges she faced along the way. She shares some of her marketing… |
| Ray Smith 04/05/2022 |
Ray Smith, 1974 graduate of Oklahoma State University (OSU), talks about his 47 year career as a financial advisor in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He discusses his experience at OSU as well as the impact of the… |
| Tiara Sanders 09/17/2022 |
Tiara Sanders, a graduate of Oklahoma State University in human development and family science, discusses working in early education childcare in Oklahoma during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an administrator… |
| Vanessa Adams-Harris |
Vanessa Adams-Harris, Muscogee citizen and director of outreach and alliance for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, talks about her early awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of… |
