Listen to Malene Chandler – born on Long Island – resident of Rochdale Village, Queens, whose family is from Jamaica – talk about getting laid off from a job in 2019 and aiming to find remote work in 2019 for the flexibility to travel with her daughter who is a competitive tennis player. Malene identifies as Black culturally. She started remote work in February of 2020. In April of 2020 she and her family moved to her mother-in-law’s house in North Carolina. They went where they would have outdoor space to bike ride, and where their daughter was able to play tennis while going to school online.
Malene describes in detail how it felt to contract Covid-19 in 2020 and to survive.
