In the first session, Eve Sanchez discusses her experience with patients during the earlier part of the pandemic. Sanchez also comments on financial difficulties and the compensation of health aides. She discusses future possibilities and the state of Red Hook during the lockdown. In the second session, Sanchez discusses her career as an aide and her relationship to patients during the pandemic. Ad ditionally, she discusses her new relationship and how she and her boyfriend have navigated relationship formation during COVID-19. Sanchez also talks about the Black Lives Matter protests and race in America
Home health aides; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Black lives matter movement; United States Race relations 21st century; Red Hook (New York, N.Y.); Sanchez, Eve, 1981-
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
80 pages
Note (Biographical)
Eve Sanchez was born in 1981, grew up in Coney Island, and lived in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn by the 2020s. At the time of the interview, Sanchez had been working as a home health aide for sixteen years
Note
Interviewed by Emma Tsui on May 30 and October 5, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Eve Sanchez, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023