Summary(3:30) First few weeks: adjustments -- (4:40) Actress and administrator -- (05:40) Concerned about effects on kids, with schools and camps closed -- (09:30) Grief about: community, nation, world -- (11:24) Angry at social disparities -- (17:00) Medical friends exhausted, traumatized -- (20:12) March 12, birthday dinner out, following day international travel closed -- (24:50) Schools closing, online learning, made crisis more tangible -- (28:00) Anxious about summer in city with her children -- (31:00) Social disparities seen in their children’s diverse school -- (33:50) Crisis has magnified disparities in neighborhood -- (40:16) Positive developments in the community -- (42:57) Theater community going online -- (46:20) School became recreational center for children of first responders -- (48:30) Her children’s experience, hesitation to go outside.
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 21, 2020, by Maria Luisa Gambale. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
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TitleOral history interview with Esra Dayani conducted on May 21, 2020.