“…In the second half of the alumni’s ninth grade year, we were interviewing, vlogging, completing surveys, making films, and loving/hating/transferring from our high schools. Since COVID-19 hit, and our lockdown, we have conducted 48 additional interviews on zoom with our peers about their experiences of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and online learning to understand how race, immigration status, class, and circumstance affect our physical and mental health, our educational possibilities, our relationship to protests and Black Lives Matter (BLM), our views of police, our activisms, and our sense of radical hope (Mosley & colleagues, 2019).…”