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[Author's description of basketball season and graduation during the pandemic. Includes link to author's Youtube video of graduation: https://youtu.be/rqgUVny6rIU.]

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[Author's description of family's struggles with employment and the coronavirus.]

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Max Disposti is the founder and Executive Director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center. In this interview, Max discusses his upbringing in Rome, Italy as a queer male and his experience coming to the U.S. and his quest to open the Resource Center. Max Disposti also talks about the parallels in how the LGBTQ+ community is treated in Italy in comparison to America.

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[Author's account of graduating high school and moving to California during the onset of the pandemic, Spring 2020.]

Scope and Contents Carol Graham is a Master Garderner. She has a Bachelor's degree in Zoology and began her career working at Saturn Oak–San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Plant One. After its closure, she enrolled to become a Master Gardner volunteer that was sponsered through the University of California Cooperative Extension program. The Master Gardner program is dedicated to distributing information for an environmentally-responsible home and garden. She has been a Master Gardner since 1983 and...

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The Leadership North County records consist of operational records related to Leadership North County (2001 and on) and Leadership 2000 (previous to 2001). Leadership 2000 affiliated with California State University San Marcos in 2001 and changed its name at that time. 11 digital file folders that are reproductions of the physical records were also donated to the collection.

Scope and Contents Ilima Kam Martinez is a California State University San Marcos alum and the founder and President of UMEKE, an organization that promotes and preserves Hawaiian culture through hula dancing. In this interview, Ilima discusses her upbringing, the influence and relationship with her father, the importance of hula in Hawaiian cultures, the challenges she faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, her passion for elders, her mentors, going back to school to earn her degree, and her goals for UMEKE...

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Empty beach with volleyball banned due to COVID19

Scope and Contents Leea Pronovost is a transgender activist and has been advocating for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights since coming out after a near-death experience in 2006. Pronovost began her work in activism in Massachusetts and partnered with a variety of organizations where she worked to help the queer community in areas such as LGBTQ+ education, housing, and hospital rights. She also worked for the Transgender Law Center and the Trans Lifeline. Now residing in Vista, CA, Pronovost is a staff member at...