Jonathan Otis shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon names his preferred news outlets, but says that in the past month or two he has intentionally distanced himself from the news media due to the negativity, choosing instead to listen to music albums, podcasts, or audio books, read books, or work on profes...
Creator:
Otis, Jonathan
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Savage-Blue shares her perspectives, as an artist and art teacher of Ojibwe descent, related to the COVID-19 quarantine. She discusses the changes to education, including how her college suddenly closed in March of 2020 and it felt like an emergency such as a tornado. She describes using her skills as a teacher to adapt and change her teac...
Creator:
Savage-Blue, Karen
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Sunderman, or Karen Sunderman LaLiberte, shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that her life and work were first affected by the novel coronavirus during a trip to Arizona in March. She describes her transition to working from home. As a critical consumer of news, and working in the news industry,...
Creator:
Sunderman, Karen
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Katharyn shares her experiences of life during this time of COVID-19. She and her husband Michael, who contributed to this interview, traveled for three weeks starting in mid-May. They share the experiences and the challenges they had while on a cross-country road trip during the still early days of COVID-19. They drove through many states to vi...
Creator:
Rolfe, Katharyn; Rolfe, Michael
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathren Kloss shares stories of her time as a busy Incident Command employee at St. Luke’s Hospital and the parent of three teenagers during the COVID19 pandemic. She describes how her work role changed at the hospital from working for Strategy and Innovation to being assigned to the emergency Incident Command structure. This meant she was busie...
Creator:
Kloss, Kathren
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy McTavish shares her experiences as an artist living and working during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She speaks about the early days when awareness of the novel coronavirus was increasing in the United States and how this impacted her artistic events, deadlines, and interactions. She describes moving her creative work to online format...
Creator:
McTavish, Kathy
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Katie Jacobson shared stories about how her life as an active, busy person "highly involved in theater" changed when the quarantine time for COVID-19 began. She described how she had started a new job at Zeitgeist a week before everything changed and shut down, and then was furloughed and lost most of her income sources as theaters and bars clos...
Creator:
Jacobson, Katie; Payne, Nathan (Photographer)
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-07-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kat Purcell is a white (irish famine diaspora) non-binary trans performer, lighting designer, installation artist, producer, director, and street activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were a Q-STAGE Fellow with 20% Theatre Company, a Twin Cities company promoting experimental work by women and queer and tr...
Kayla Gore is a Black trans woman, community organizer, housing activist, and public health worker based in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time of this interview, she served as the Southern Regional Organizer at the Transgender Law Center. In addition to her work at TLC, Gore also works to help to coordinate homeless services, conduct direct outreac...
Kimberly Anderson shares her experiences of work and life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes the very early weeks of hearing about the pandemic and reveals that she and her friends joked about it, thinking it may just be a hyped up story by the government. She says they realized it was serious soon after, when they ...
Creator:
Anderson, Kimberly
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-09-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kiyomi Fujikawa is a mixed-race queer trans femme and activist based in Seattle. At the time of this interview, she served as Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, an activist philanthropic organization supporting grassroots, queer and trans youth of color- and women of color-led movements, as well as on the boards of the Groundswell Fund, Funders Con...
Kraig Decker shares stories of how his life at work and his recreational activities has changed during the time of COVID-19. He is very active with local climbing and biking groups, and concerns about transmission of COVID-19 impacted how he was able to climb, either in an indoor climbing gym or even outside. He shares stories about how there wa...
Creator:
Decker, Kraig
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lani Dalbacka shares stories of her time teaching English in China right before the start of COVID-19 and her subsequent return to Minnesota at the beginning of the pandemic. She describes first hearing about it in China, and how her colleagues and others took it seriously because of their experience with the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndr...
Creator:
Dalbacka, Lani
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
LaSaia Wade is an Afro-Puerto Rican indigenous trans woman, activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of this oral history interview, she was the Director of Brave Space Alliance, the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing resources, progra...
Lee Andel Dewey is a white nonbinary organizer, HIV/AIDS activist, and abolitionist based in Chicago. They are the founder of LADhoc Accounting, a business providing sliding-scale-to-free accounting, bookkeeping, and consultation servivces to BIPOC- and queer and trans-focused political groups and community organizations. At the time of this int...
Creator:
Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee)
Contributor:
Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager and transcriber)
Created:
2020-12-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lisa E. Johnson shares her experiences of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a “broadcast journalist, show host, and de facto news director” at KUMD radio station on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, she says she is considered an essential worker so is still employed but is now working from her home. She describes ...
Creator:
Johnson, Lisa E.
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lucie Amundsen shares her perspective as an employee, friend and parent in Duluth during the time of COVID-19. She discusses how she first heard about COVID-19 on Minnesota Public Radio, and how she reads many other print news sources such as the Duluth News-Tribune and the New York Times. She works for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and...
Creator:
Amundsen, Lucie
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-08-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lynn Wisneski shares her experiences living and working during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins by describing Aerostich, the internationally known Duluth based business where she has worked for thirty years, her history and role there, as well as how the business and their employees were impacted by COVID-19. She describes the signi...
Creator:
Wisneski, Lynn
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-10-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lyz Jaakola shares stories about her life as a musician, parent and educator during the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. She describes how her family’s band, The Indian Head Band, needed to adapt and change from playing life events to sharing their music via Facebook during this time. She describes how they were all used to ...
Creator:
Jaakola, Lyz
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Makayla Taylor shares her unique experience while studying abroad when COVID-19 first became a global issue. Her Semester at Sea program’s itinerary was altered, their travels to China were cancelled, and the trip was cut short by one month. She describes what she noticed in Japan and Vietnam while she was there, and how these countries were rea...
Creator:
Taylor, Makayla
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mara Hursey shares her experiences in work and life with a new baby under the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls first hearing about the virus when it was overseas and not worrying about it very much. At the beginning of the pandemic, as a manager at her place of work, she tried to calm people down, but as it got closer to home, she became more and ...
Creator:
Hursey, Mara
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-09-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mariah Moore (she/her/hers) is a National Organizer at Transgender Law Center and also a Co-director at House of Tulip. Her work includes fighting to ensure equity, equality and safety for the transgender community, especially Black transgender women. She has worked tirelessly in New Orleans to bring awareness to communities that have been adver...
Mark Nicklawske, a freelance journalist living in Duluth, Minnesota, talks about the significant impact of COVID-19 on his work, family, volunteering, and social life. As a freelance journalist for the ”Duluth News Tribune”, he wrote reviews of live concerts and theater events, which have all been cancelled since the pandemic began. Rather than ...
Creator:
Nicklawske, Mark
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-07-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mary Fox shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview was conducted six days prior to the 2020 presidential election, so she describes her early voting process and how voting was different this year from other years due to the pandemic. She talks about her preferred news outlets and her concern about ...
Creator:
Fox, Mary
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Melissa Plucinak shares her experiences of life as a new mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls that she gave birth to her daughter the same week she started hearing about the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States. She tells how she “felt pretty robbed” of the excitement of having her first child and sharing the experience with e...
Creator:
Plucinak, Melissa
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mike Scholtz discusses some of the ways that COVID-19 has affected his life. He shares that much of his work life hasn’t changed significantly because he has been able to continue the video editing part of his work from home. He says he has been working on old projects and has also been fortunate to get some new work since the pandemic began. He...
Creator:
Scholtz, Mike
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Millie Richard, a Native American elder living in the Central Hillside neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, describes how her life has changed under COVID-19. She mentions that she spends a lot of time in her yard and garden, and since she is outside, she considers it a safe place for her to be and to sometimes meet with others. She said that as a...
Creator:
Richard, Millie
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-07-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Miriam Kloss describes her life as a high school senior at Duluth East High School in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares stories about how her schooling had to convert to online learning very quickly with short notice, and the struggles of attempting to learn complex subjects like physics and calculus while working at home away from...
Creator:
Kloss, Miriam
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mitra Emad, who is currently on sabbatical from her job as professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, speaks in-depth and at length about the intersection of science and popular culture during this pandemic, while exploring the implications of the internet as a source of news and information. She mentions some of the scientific and epidemi...
Creator:
Emad, Mitra
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Moira Villiard discusses her experiences as an artist and active community organizer in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the summer of 2020. She describes leading a community-engaged mural art project at the Clayton Jackson McGhie memorial after the death of George Floyd, partly in response to some graffiti on the memorial. She felt it wa...
Creator:
Villiard, Moira
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Na Choih is a Korean non-binary activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they worked as the Youth Leadership Mentor for Climate Generation, a Twin Cities-based environmental justice organization. In this oral history interview, Choih discusses their upbringing and initial forays into trans politics, environmental ...
Natalie Baker shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls hearing about the novel coronavirus in the very early months and explains that she had some disbelief about its seriousness at the time. She lists her main news sources, including the daily reading of El País [Spanish language daily newspaper, ba...
Creator:
Baker, Natalie
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Pam Melby shares her experiences of living in Finland, Minnesota during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins the interview talking about the food and craft items that she and her husband make and sell locally at a farmer’s market and at the Finland Co-op. She describes how she first heard about the pandemic and that she and her family d...
Creator:
Melby, Pam
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Paul Lundgren shared stories and perspectives as an active, social Duluth resident during the time of COVID-19. He has produced the Homegrown Music Festival field guide content every year since 2006, and this year the annual festival was cancelled due to quarantine right before the field guide was set to go to print. He also discusses his work o...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-07-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Phillip Sher shares stories of his work, social and religious life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. He describes the changes and shortages he has seen in the international meat packing market through work with his company, Pfeiveh Brokerage. He purchases animal glands that the pharmaceutical industry uses for production of medi...
Creator:
Sher, Phillip
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-08-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Phoebe Davis discusses her personal life and her experiences during the time of COVID-19. She shares that she had COVID-19 and mentions that she lost close to sixty pounds because of the illness. She details what this experience was like for her, including the “double quarantine” in her household. She mentions various native medicines that she u...
Creator:
Davis, Phoebe
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Robin Washington shares experiences from his life and work during the COVID-19 pandemic. He lists the news outlets he turns to for information and says that as a journalist he is well connected to colleagues and their work and explains that because of these connections, the information in his social media feed tends to be quite reliable compared...
Creator:
Washington, Robin
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Salaam F. Witherspoon shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls first hearing about the novel coronavirus on Facebook and that she initially thought it was a joke. She recounts the days when the schools were closing and the churches were closing, as the time she realized it was real. She has since known ...
Creator:
Witherspoon, Salaam F.
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sam Ames is a white transmasculine civil rights attorney, anti-conversion therapy activist, and theologian based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he was the interim executive director of Our Family Coalition - an organization that advocates for and serves LGBTQ+ youth and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously, ...
Samuel Miltich speaks about the impacts of COVID-19 on his life and his music career. He recounts how in March he was performing in Florida and had to depart early, just as the country was beginning to shut down. He says the pandemic led to the cancellation of his rigorous schedule of on-the-road performances. He talks about how the economic imp...
Creator:
Miltich, Samuel
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sandra Maxwell shares her experiences living in Finland, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that she and her husband have National Public Radio on “all the time” so she first heard about the novel coronavirus very early, in mid or late January. She tells us that she considers herself a solitary person who doesn’t mind being by hers...
Creator:
Maxwell, Sandra
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sarah Brokke discusses her work and experiences as a visual artist and art professor at St. Scholastica in Duluth, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. She shares her experience with traveling in Bali just as the pandemic was beginning, and returning to a home that seemed changed. She discusses how teaching changed so much when it ...
Creator:
Brokke, Sarah
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-30
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sarah Curtiss shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins the interview by introducing herself in Ojibwe. Sarah is the co-executive director of the non-profit Men As Peacemakers and describes what the organization is, the many ways they serve the community, and how COVID-19 has impacted much of what they do...
Creator:
Curtiss, Sarah
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-08-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Shannon Walz shares her experiences living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She remembers the precautionary measures implemented while working at an environmental learning camp in the state of Washington over ten years ago during the H1N1 flu outbreak. Based on that experience she recounts her reaction to COVID-19 in the early days of t...
Creator:
Walz, Shannon
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Shauntelle Hammonds is a Black trans woman, activist, and outreach worker based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was serving as the Executive Director of Peter's Place, a recovery organization and halfway house in Richmond centered on the needs of LGBTQ+ people in recovery, especially Black and Brown trans people, slated...
Sheila Packa shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about the early months of 2020 when she first heard about the novel coronavirus. She tells us that she keeps a journal and refers to it when she is looking back and reflecting on these early days. She talks about her partner, Kathy, and their decision ...
Creator:
Packa, Sheila
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Shelby Chestnut is an Indigenous, mixed race, Two Spirit community organizer and public policy advocate based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, they were Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center, having previously served as Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Vio...
Suenary Philavanh shares stories of her life as a college student in Duluth during the time of the COVID-19 quarantine and shut-downs. She shares how she first heard about the virus before her spring break from college, and how she changed her trip from the original plan to go to Portland, Washington because cases were rising there. She describe...
Creator:
Philavanh, Suenary
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tate Haglund-Pagel shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an educator who is an instructional technology integration coach, he talks briefly about his work in the school system on the day students and teachers were sent home last spring. He says working from home is a mixed blessing; there have been some additional str...
Creator:
Haglund-Pagel, Tate
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-10-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tera Amesbury shares stories about her life as a parent to four children during the time of COVID-19 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. She describes her concerns about her son’s health care needs continuing to be met in a time of medication shortages and pressure on hospitals due to COVID-19. Her son has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which is a form of epil...
Creator:
Amesbury, Tera
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Thalia Hernandez is a white and Latinx non-binary trans woman, trans activist, and advocate based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director at Equality Virginia, the leading LGBTQ advocacy organization in the commonwealth. In this oral history interview, Hernandez discusses her upbringing, experiences of ...
Thomas Murray, or Pastor Tom, shares his experiences of life as a Lutheran pastor living on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a pastor at two remote churches, one in Lutsen, Minnesota and the other in Finland, Minnesota. He talks about the changes in the lives of his parishioners, his c...
Creator:
Murray, Thomas
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Thomas O’Rourke shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about his weekend getaway at a cabin with his wife and friends just before the lockdown happened, describing it as a “calm before the storm.” Tom is the executive director of the Hartley Nature Center in Duluth, Minnesota, which provides many prog...
Creator:
O'Rourke, Thomas
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tiffani Skroch shares her experiences as a college student living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls sitting in class when her Apple Watch buzzed with a news update about Coronavirus numbers rising, and remembers this moment to be the one when she took more seriously what was happening. She lists some of the mainstream news so...
Creator:
Skroch, Tiffani
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-09-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Timothy Broman shares his experiences of living under COVID-19 in Northeastern Minnesota. He describes how his visits with his 88-year-old mother, who also lives in Duluth, have changed over the months, from the beginning of the pandemic to now. Tim is currently working in retail and details the new safety procedures required at his job, which i...
Creator:
Broman, Timothy
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tom Hanson shares the experiences and challenges he has experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially how it has affected his businesses, including the Duluth Grill, OMC Smokehouse, and Corktown Deli. He describes his early life, his move to Duluth with his family, his progression from restaurant management to restaurant ownership with hi...
Creator:
Hanson, Tom
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Toni Rasmussen shares stories about her life as a beauty salon owner and parent during the time of COVID-19 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. She describes how her salon was required to shut down for three months due to the risks of spreading COVID-19 starting in March 2020, which meant a loss of income for her as a self-employed salon owner. She felt ...
Creator:
Rassmussen, Toni
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-09-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
TK Morton is a Black queer trans higher education professional, advocate, and activist based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, ze was the Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Macalester College, where ze worked to support and advocate for queer and trans BIPOC students. Prior to zir work at Macalester, M...
Creator:
Morton, Tristan "TK" (interviewee)
Contributor:
Nava, Rio Osorio (interviewer); Tierney, Oli (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager); Chamness, Daria (transcriber)
Created:
2020-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Vernon L. Simula shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. He tells us that he first became aware of the novel coronavirus in late December 2019 or in January 2020. He talks about the politicization of the news, describes his chosen news sources, and explains why he watches both MSNBC and Fox News. He describes some of the w...
Creator:
Simula, Vernon L.
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-08-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Wahira LaBelle is a trans fem queer of Somali descent, community organizer, migrant justice activist, and advocate based in California. At the time of this interview, she was the Bay Area organizer for the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) and the founder of its associated group Black Trans Migrants United (BTMU,) as well as an advocate and ...
William (Bill) Kosiak shares his perspective as a retired person living in Two Harbors, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. He describes how he first heard about COVID-19 on the news, and still watches the nightly news and reads many other news publications online. He shares his perspective of how there is quite a bit of misleading news or o...
Creator:
Kosiak, William (Bill)
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Zachary Benz shares stories of his life in Hibbing, Minnesota during the time of COVID-19. He describes how he first heard about COVID-19 via Twitter, where he was posting material for his own project, the Daily Planet news site. He covered it as a news story himself and knew that it had the potential to “spread like wildfire, if unchecked.” He ...
Creator:
Benz, Zachary
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Zakia McKensey is an African-American trans woman and native of Richmond, Viginia. At the time of this interview, she was the executive director of Nationz Foundation, a Richmond-based public health organization she founded in 2015. McKensey is a certified HIV test counselor, prevention educator, and disease intervention specialist with over twe...
Drawing of a laptop computer with a mouse, earbuds, and a black screen. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff), as well as Duluth community educators, artists, students of all levels, and hobby...
Creator:
Minor, Elizabeth C
Created:
2020-03-30
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of a single tree on a small island. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff), as well as Duluth co...
Creator:
Twu, Krista Sue-Lo
Created:
2020-04-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of a person sitting on a couch alone in a house, looking at a laptop computer. Beneath the house is a burrow with several small animals. The drawing also includes: the title, "Isolation"; the artist's name, "Toko"; and the date "March 28, 2020". The artist is 11 years old. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology ...
Creator:
Nakajima, Toko
Created:
2020-03-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The etcher/engraver Jacques Callot printed the second state of Les Misères et malheurs de la guerre in 1633. These images are in the public domain and the originals are held by Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://new.artsmia.org/.) They are presented here in their entirety and in order, because viewing them together and as an ordered series sh...
This is a close up photograph of Jeremy Davis, his wife, and two of his children. They are all wearing face masks. Two of the masks are home-made with Native American print fabric. One mask is an N95 mask, the other is a disposable medical mask. The older child has her hand in the photo, and is wearing a purple latex glove.
Creator:
Davis, Jeremy
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the first in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is one of a series of seven diptychs showing the experiences of the creator and her family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were created as a final project for a University of Minnesota Duluth class in the spring of 2020. The two images in this diptych show Mae's brother Joe swimming in a lake. One image is a wide...
Creator:
Munkeby, Mae
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy Mouacheupao is a Program Officer for Creative Placemaking with the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (TC LISC) supporting community organizations to leverage arts and culture for community and economic development throughout the Twin Cities. She was awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2011 to research the Hmong diaspor...
Creator:
Mouacheupao, Kathy
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
From the creator: "I took this photograph on June 5, 2020 in my apartment. Because I moved here during the pandemic, I set up hooks by the door to hold the things I'd always need to grab on my way out - my keys and a cloth mask."
Creator:
Conerton, Kate
Created:
2020-06-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A 2,700-word narrative timeline with photos comprising the creator's Duluth, Minnesota 2020 pandemic story from March through April 2020. The author discusses communicating with friends and frequenting local businesses before and during the stay-at-home order; learning that friends and acquaintances had contracted COVID-19; how cross-country ski...
Creator:
Ellis, Lane R.
Created:
2020-03-04 - 2020-04-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Plants and wooden plant markers in Vainio's garden. The plant markers read: "Gichi aniibiish," the Ojibwe word for cabbage; and "Kaali," the Finnish word for cabbage. The photographer describes the image: “My husband and I started a garden for the first time this Spring! We have tomatoes, cabbage, collard greens, peas, potatoes, carrots, peppers...
Creator:
Vainio, Ivy
Created:
2020-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign has a United States flag as a background and reads "THANK YOU! First Responders, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Lab Techs, Military, Truck Drivers, Grocers, Teachers, Mail Carriers, Scientists, Family, Friends, Neighbors, Gas Stations, Administrators, Cleaners, Everyone! #helpers" This photograph was taken in Duluth, Minnesota near East...
Created:
2020-04-29
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
We focus on developing a novel scalable graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) method for a small number of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. Due to the lack of labeled data and the availability of large-scale unlabeled data, existing SSL methods usually encounter either suboptimal performance because of an improper graph or...
Creator:
Wang, Li (University of Texas at Arlington)
Created:
2020-10-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This photograph is one of a set of three. From the creator: "These photos were taken on April 7, 2020. They show signs teachers made and hung in the windows of Lester Park School for their students. These pictures were used in posts on the Department of Education Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages with the text "Heartwarming messages from t...
Creator:
Vigen, Brianne
Created:
2020-04-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this talk we review some recent advances in the derivation of data-driven regularisers for inverse problems. We are in particular interested in those which are represented by a neural network and which are trained using an unsupervised, adversarial loss. The latter has links to optimal transport as the loss is derived as an approximation to t...
Creator:
Schoenlieb, Carola (University of Cambridge)
Created:
2020-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Undirected graphical models are widely used in science to represent structured high-dimensional joint probabilities. We focus our attention on the inverse problem of learning a discrete graphical model given i.i.d. samples from its distribution. In the first part of the presentation, we show that the inverse problem can be solved exactly and eff...
Creator:
Vuffray, Marc (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Gaussian Graphical models have wide-ranging applications in machine learning and the natural and social sciences where they are one of the most popular ways to model statistical relationships between observed variables. In most of the settings in which they are applied, the number of observed samples is much smaller than the dimension and the go...
Creator:
Meka, Raghu (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Graphical models are a rich language for describing high-dimensional distributions in terms of their dependence structure. While there are algorithms with provable guarantees for learning undirected graphical models in a variety of settings, there has been much less progress in the important scenario when there are latent variables, which is the...
Creator:
Moitra, Ankur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2020-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This letter was written by a University of Minnesota Duluth librarian. It expresses safety concerns around the City of Duluth's plans to begin offering curbside pickup service at the Duluth Public Library, and urges the Mayor to reconsider these plans. This is the first of two letters.
Created:
2020-04-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This letter was written by a University of Minnesota Duluth librarian. It expresses many safety concerns around the City of Duluth's plans to begin offering curbside pickup service at the Duluth Public Library, and strongly urges the Mayor to reconsider these plans. This is the second of two letters.
Created:
2020-04-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This poster was created as part of COVID-19 response and outreach programming for the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) in Duluth, Minnesota. Tashia Hart was one of many artists contracted by AICHO and the Minnesota Department of Health to design artwork for public health posters around COVID-19 safety protocols. This poster...
Creator:
Hart, Tashia
Created:
2020-05-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Le Vo came to the United States seeking education and economic opportunity. He had difficulty adjusting to the language and culture, but was able to find friends through religion and school.
Creator:
Vo, Le
Created:
2020-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The talk is divided into two parts. In the first part we review L-infinity type variational problems on graphs which are motivated by applications in (semi-supervised) machine learning. In particular, we study ground states of the sup-norm of the gradient, characterize them as distance functions and relate them to the asymptotic behavior of the ...
Creator:
Bungert, Leon (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Roith, Tim (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Created:
2020-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This virtual performance was recorded live at Gaelynn Lea's home in Duluth, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. It contains songs written and/or arranged, and performed by Gaelynn, including improvisation and interaction with her virtual audience. In her interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Gaelynn, a professiona...
Creator:
Tressler, Gaeylnn Lea
Created:
2020-07-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the third in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mean-field games (MFG) is a framework to model and analyze huge populations of interacting agents that play non-cooperative differential games with applications in crowd motion, economics, finance, etc. Additionally, the PDE that arise in MFG have a rich mathematical structure and include those that appear in optimal transportation and density f...
Creator:
Nurbekyan, Levon (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2020-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is one of a series of seven diptychs showing the experiences of the creator and her family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were created as a final project for a University of Minnesota Duluth class in the spring of 2020. The two images in this diptych show Mae and her friend Audrey visiting with each other while ...
Creator:
Munkeby, Mae
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is one of a series of seven diptychs showing the experiences of the creator and her family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were created as a final project for a University of Minnesota Duluth class in the spring of 2020. The two images in this diptych show Mae's friend Audrey sunbathing. One image is a wide shot ...
Creator:
Munkeby, Mae
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mai Vang was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she graduated from Johnson High School in 2001. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology and Womens Studies with a minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she studied Anthropology and ...
Creator:
Vang, Mai
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The photograph shows a person with red hair crouched in a parking lot, wearing a face mask and writing on a yard sign with a blue sharpie marker. Description from the creator: "Duluth East High School senior Peter Potswald writes his name on a yard sign for new incoming Association members in the school parking lot. Association is a club at Dulu...
Creator:
Goodermote, Corbyn
Created:
2020-05-29
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
![Marquee at Zinema 2 movie theatre reading: "We ❤️ [Red Heart emoji] Our Community"](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/52291468e710ede35938219ece00d7e1eacd0132.png "Marquee at Zinema 2 movie theatre reading: \"We ❤️ [Red Heart emoji] Our Community\"")