Listen to Elisheba Fowkles, MFA, from Brooklyn, New York and now living on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois with her husband and two young children talk about living in the Midwest during the Covid-19 pandemic. She was laid off just before the stay-at-home orders in 2020 and she was able to stay home with her son when daycares closed while her husband who is a frontline worker continued to work in-person. She listened to updates from Dr. Arwady and Dr. Ngozi Ezike in the Chicago area.
Elisheba and I are both alumni of Prep for Prep. She attended Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York. We met at Smith College where we both lived in Lamont House. We reminisced about prep school friends we have in common.
We also memorialized the life of Jason Forde who sat beside Elisheba Fowkles in assemblies when she was in Prep for Prep. Jason sadly passed away on March 21st 2022 and we watched his funeral, which was streamed online on April 1st 2022.
Elisheba Fowkles founded the nonprofit www.blackmarigolds.org to increase “access and participation in the arts for youth living in under-resourced communities within the Chicogaland area.”
