Title: Lauren Valente, Covid Experience on Rikers
Collection: Covid at Rikers
Theme: Covid in Confinement
Summary: Lauren Valente was incarcerated at Rikers Island when COVID-19 first hit the facility in 2020. We captured her story as part of our oral history program. She describes being locked down for months as 38 out of the 50 women in her dorm developed coronavirus symptoms. (video made with @headlinervideo)
Narrator: Lauren Valente
Creator: Annie Anderson
Producer: Regina Campbell
Date Created: Mar 10, 2021
Full interviews can be accessed here.