Interview with Shannon Carter
IntervieweeInterview with
Shannon Carter
InterviewerInterviewed by
Peter Moran
Date2022 July 21
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 1 Hours, 34 Minutes, 45 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
Object number2022.20.27a-b
Description(a) Interview with Shannon Carter. Interviewed by Peter Moran on July 21, 2022 at New Haven Free Public Library Ives Branch, 133 Elm Street, New Haven. (b) Photograph of Shannon Carter taken at her interview. She was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Historical Society's Community History Project discussing her experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Shannon Carter is a former library employee who has recently completed a master’s degree in public health. She started this degree during the pandemic at Yale University, and it helped inform her exceptional knowledge of policy and public health. Shannon has worked various retail jobs, including working at Starbucks during the pandemic, and identifies with the disabled community due to an autoimmune disorder. She said both experiences often lead to dehumanization by others. The pandemic gave a brief glimpse of a society that was more accessible, more cautious, and briefly more accommodating. The pandemic was very political to Shannon, both in a sense of partisanship, but also in a sense of privilege and power for different people, bodies, and institutions. She took part in some Black Lives Matter protests. Shannon’s mother caught COVID-19 and stayed in the hospital and survived with treatment. Shannon and her partner both found community and comfort in online communities and digital entertainment, and in their dog.
Shannon Carter is a former library employee who has recently completed a master’s degree in public health. She started this degree during the pandemic at Yale University, and it helped inform her exceptional knowledge of policy and public health. Shannon has worked various retail jobs, including working at Starbucks during the pandemic, and identifies with the disabled community due to an autoimmune disorder. She said both experiences often lead to dehumanization by others. The pandemic gave a brief glimpse of a society that was more accessible, more cautious, and briefly more accommodating. The pandemic was very political to Shannon, both in a sense of partisanship, but also in a sense of privilege and power for different people, bodies, and institutions. She took part in some Black Lives Matter protests. Shannon’s mother caught COVID-19 and stayed in the hospital and survived with treatment. Shannon and her partner both found community and comfort in online communities and digital entertainment, and in their dog.
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19642515
NotesSubject Note: The Connecticut Historical Society’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting, gathering items of the recent past as well as from events happening today. This program developed community historians to identify, document, and preserve their experiences as residents of Connecticut, and to share these experiences during a series of community presentations. The project focused on the impact of Covid-19 on Connecticans, particularly on Black and Brown communities, funeral homes, and on nursing home and elder care populations.Cataloging Note: This cataloging project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-249472-OMS-21.
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