Voices from a Pandemic
Dr. Tyler Robinson has completed three years of residency in the Department of General Surgery at the Albany (NY) Medical Center. After graduating from Vassar in 2008 with an International Relations degree, he completed his medical degree at Boston University and earned a master’s degree in Public Health from Harvard.
Read moreDr. Gabrielle Shapiro is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health Systems in New York. She is a Board Certified Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Read moreLisa Keefe is a biophysicist whose work focuses on accelerating drug discovery through synchrotron-based structural biology. She is Vice President for Advancing Therapeutics at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) in Buffalo, NY, and Director of the Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association – Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT) located at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
Read moreLaurie Martinka is a paramedic with Atlantic Mobile Health in New Jersey.
Read moreFrom the earliest days, members of the greater Vassar community have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this ongoing project, they contribute first-hand narratives of precarious moments in time during a still-unfolding story. We are deeply grateful to all who have shared their accounts to date, and encourage you to return to the site to view additional testimonies as they continue to be added.
With the pandemic raging unabated in the U.S., the definition of the front lines is expanding. Have you or a family member become ill? Are you a teacher contemplating a return to school? A homeschooling parent? A business owner affected by the shutdowns? An essential worker? We invite you to share your own experience here.
