The Borough We Became: Queens Residents On Life During COVID-19

This bonus episode of The Borough We Became was conceived and produced by the Queens Public Library Teen Advisory Board.  The Queens Public Library Teen Advisory Board is a yearlong program were members take the lead in creating and implementing a project that helps their peers and community.  This year’s TAB decided to work on a podcast to interview the voices they felt have been left out of the conversations around Covid-19.  After much discussion, TAB members decided to highlight the voices of their peers and their experiences with quarantine and distance learning.  After spending the first half of the school year learning the basics of podcasting, members worked together to write the interview questions and were responsible for interviewing, producing, and hosting the episode.  Once they learned the basics of creating a podcast episode, the TAB members set out to interview people across generations and life experiences to ask the question “How are you doing?”  Answers varied widely and touched upon the topics of virtual school, the disruption of daily routines, new skills learned during lockdown, and social media use. Interviewees often chose to highlight the positives of their experiences in quarantine. 

A special episode, created in partnership with  Borrowed, the Brooklyn Public Library podcast and the online newspaper The CITY, on grief and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we can move forward as a community.

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The Queens Memory Project brings you the ninth episode of season two of the Queens Memory Podcast. This season we have collected the documented experiences of Queens residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this episode, we hear from artists and creatives in Queens about how they have managed to shine through the pandemic, by finding innovative and fun ways to express themselves while staying safe.

The Queens Memory Project brings you the eighth episode of season two of the Queens Memory Podcast. This season we have collected the documented experiences of Queens residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. On this episode, we hear from educators of different backgrounds about how virtual learning has impacted their students and the way they do their jobs.