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Voces of a Pandemic Stories

Subject	Collection	Story	Interviewed By
Alex Cantillo	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Alex Cantillo is a graduate student and professor who specializes in leadership development and sports excellence. He's known by friends and family to be energetic and positive, but the pandemic has challenged his... Read More	Jackie Pedota
Alicia Cisneros	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Alicia Cisneros works as a dental assistant in Elgin, Illinois. Due to COVID her work closed for almost two months (March to late May) and they only attended to emergencies. Although the staff and herself always... Read More	Anthony Villanueva
Armando Trejo	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Armando Trejo, an archivist for Elgin Community College, has transitioned to working remotely after 26 years of working physically in the archives, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Trejo, including his relatives that... Read More	Anthony Villanueva
Betsania Salgado	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Betsania Salgado is a nursing graduate from Northern Illinois University. She spent the first few months of the pandemic in search of a position as a registered nurse in Illinois. Although nurses were in high... Read More	Dana Yarak
Celeste Velazco	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Celeste Velazco, born and raised in Venezuela, is an advertising and political science student at the University of Florida. Her student life consisted of working three jobs, being a full-time student, and hanging... Read More	Jackie Pedota
Elizabeth Villa	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Elizabeth Villa is a 51-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of six. She has five sons and one daughter and is also a grandmother to two girls. She has been teaching for 20 years and has lived all... Read More	Vincent Pena
Fernando Jimenez	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Fernando Jimenez was born in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, and at 27 years old found himself in the United States in pursuit of the “American Dream.” Since his first day in the U.S., work has been... Read More	Vincent Peña
Genoveva Islas	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Genoveva works as the founder and director of the non-profit Cultiva la Salud, which works to promote health equity in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She works as a public health and policy advocate,... Read More	Dominique Montiel Valle
Jasmine Virola	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Jasmine lives in New York City and is employed in the emergency department of a Hospital. She and her husband both contracted COVID-19 in March, and while Jasmine recovered quickly, her husband... Read More	Ramón Rodriguez
Jennifer Reyna	Voces of a Pandemic	By: Voces Staff Jennifer Reyna is a 30-year-old tech worker who lives in Portland, Oregon. She was born and raised in El Monte, California. She has lived in Portland since 2016 and works for a tech company called Squarespace.... Read More	Vincent Peña