Oral history interview with Tamia Santana, 2020
- Name
- Santana, Tamia (Interviewee)
- Dowell, Maurice Ivy (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Tamia Santana, 2020
- Abstract
- Tamia Santana discusses her family and pandemic routines of meditating, going for a run, and helping her kids prepare for school. She discusses her art and community, racial injustices, and the generational differences in the Black community. Santana also talks about her husband's diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Artists; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; Arts--New York (State); African Americans; United States Race relations 21st century; Santana, Tamia
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 42 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Tamia Santana grew up in Brooklyn and is a mother to two boys. She currently works as the chief engagement and inclusion officer of Ballet Hispánico. Prior to this, she was the founder and former executive director of the Brooklyn Dance Festival
- Note
- Interviewed by Maurice Ivy Dowell on May 9, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Tamia Santana, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
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- Catalog Record
- 18899326
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/b2g9-7y33