Files
Loading...
Description
Alessia Antoine (she/her) was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Antoine was born in 2000 and during her early childhood shared a home with her extended family. Antoine attended high school at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High. During her high school year Antoine worked babysitting jobs and participated in robotics club. In 2018 Antoine moved to Chicago to attend Columbia College Chicago to study filmmaking. Antoine was excited to move and to attend the collection due to the diversity of the student population. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened in March 2020, Antoine was forced to evacuate her dorm and move back to Miami to finish the spring semester. Online learning affected Antoine’s motivation in her schoolwork and being back in Miami made it challenging to participate in school. In the fall of 2020, Antoine returned to Chicago and moved into her first apartment off-campus in the South Loop.
Publication Date
Fall 2020
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
COVID-19, pandemic, Chicago, Illinois, United States, coronavirus, Florida, filmmaking
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Oral History | Public History | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Ekis, Bridget, "Interview with Kelso Antoine" (2020). Capturing Quarantine Oral Histories. 24.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingquarantine/24
Comments
Alessia Antoine (she/her) was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Antoine was born in 2000 and during her early childhood shared a home with her extended family. Antoine attended high school at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High from 2014 to 2018. During her high school years Antoine worked babysitting jobs and participated in robotics club. In 2018 Antoine moved to Chicago to attend Columbia College Chicago to study filmmaking. Antoine was excited to move to Chicago due to the diversity of the student population. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened in March 2020, Antoine was forced to evacuate her dorm and move back to Miami to finish the spring semester. Online learning affected Antoine’s motivation in her schoolwork and being back in Miami made it challenging to participate in school. Throughout the summer Antoine enjoyed going to the beach with friends, watching movies and discovering new music. In the fall of 2020, Antoine returned to Chicago and moved into her first apartment off-campus in the South Loop.
Conducted in fall 2020 by an Oral History: The Art of the Interview student, this interview with a fellow student in the class reflects on the pandemic and how it impacted their life. The interview is conducted based on the life history approach to oral history.