Published: December 14, 2020
Sitting in her car one afternoon in July, 25-year-old graduate student Julia Araujo shared her reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak through a video call. While interviewer Dominique Montiel Valle listened on the other side of the screen, Araujo described the mental toll the lockdown took on her, including daily panic attacks and desperate phone calls to her parents. The conversation is one of nearly 100 interviews that the team of the Voces Oral History Center has conducted as part of its new project, Voces of a Pandemic, which seeks to illustrate the ways in which the Latinx community has been affected by COVID-19.