Pandemic Oral History Project — Scott County Historical Society

 2022 Oral History Interviews

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Sabrina Yegorov is a 17-year-old High School student and part-time model. While we sat down she discussed her time spent during the pandemic finding new modeling jobs and how the process changed into something more digital.

Sabrina Yegorov

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Rick Krant is a 58-year-old, who works at Auburn Homes and Services, and talked about working at a care facility during a pandemic.

Rick Krant

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Ahema Odeng-Otu is a 17-year-old high school student and artist. She talked about how the pandemic affected her family and led to her embracing her art.

Ahema Odeng-Otu

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Eric is a 47-year-old, with 2 kids, and is a manager at Shutterfly. He talked about remote working challenges, his opinion on how everything was handled at work, and how the school his kids went to handled online learning.

Eric Thielhelm

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Debi Moore is 50 years old and works at Minneapolis Radiation Oncology. She has a fiance and 3 children. She talked about changes during the pandemic that took place in her home life and working as a medical biller.

Debi Moore

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Jessica Buck-Christ is 24 years old and is a stay-at-home mom with a side business partnered by her and her mom Love and Lotus. She talks about her experience having COVID and going through the pandemic owning a small business and becoming a mother. She also mentioned how the politics and opinions during COVID changed family and friend dynamics.

Jessica Buck-Christ

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Matt Moore is 54 years old and works at Aon, an insurance company. He is the father to 3 children, and step-father to 2 step-children, and married to Kirsten Moore. He talked about getting sick with Covid, his experience moving during a pandemic, and moving his parents into assisted living after they got sick.

Matt Moore

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Kip Kelley is a 33-year-old catering manager at Mr. Pig Stuff. He talked about how Covid affected the restaurant and his experience of nightlife changes.

Kip Kelley

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Kirsten Moore is a 47-year-old working at Aon, a reinsurance company in IT. She leads large groups of people, talking about how it was moved to remote, and how Covid affected her family.

Kirsten Moore

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Melissa Anderson works at Minneapolis Radiation Oncology as a human resources manager, and she discussed the changes she had to make when new hires or employees wanted more flexible schedules and remote working.

Melissa Anderson

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Luke Hennen is the current sheriff in Scott County. He talked about how law enforcement changed during the pandemic and also touched on communications with minority communities, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and his vision for future department reform.

Luke Hennen