COVID-19 Student Interviews - Armstrong, Abrea
Abstract
Description
Abrea Armstrong is the Marketing is the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Innovation Quarter, a space in Winston-Salem that houses businesses and organizations and is aimed at promoting new ideas and creativity. She has also recently become the President of the Winston-Salem Young Professionals, a branch of the Winston-Salem Urban League which was created to promote personal, professional, and social growth in young people and to give them opportunities to serve their local community. In this interview, Armstrong discusses her experience working with the Innovation Quarter and living in downtown Winston-Salem during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing how her time management skills have benefited her during this time. She describes how Winston-Salem has become quieter and how that absence of people has provided the perfect opportunity for protests and marches, since there was less activity to interrupt. She shares how she believes that the "we're all in this together" messaging around COVID-19 has contributed to this wave of the Black Lives Matter movement and speaks about her role in that movement. She explains the push to abolish the police and shares that she views progress as the goal, taking pride in small steps towards justice and abolition.
Keywords
Coronavirus infections--History--Sources, COVID-19 (Disease)--History--Sources, Wake Forest University--History--Sources, COVID-19 Student Interviews, Office of Civic and Community Engagement