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Hello, could you tell us your name? My name is Tatiana Belenkaya. And who's invited you to do this project? Dan Kerr, and Elsa Kerr.

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Alright. And are you willing to have this be a part of the Connected Perspectives project? Yes. Excellent. So could you tell us, how has the pandemic impacted your life?

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Well, it's upended my work trial. We have been preparing to start a trial, a five day trial in Chicago, starting on April 20. So the very first thing that happened is we realized that it's most likely going to be the case that the trial was going to be postponed. And soon thereafter, the school closed and my permanent office closed down, and we began working from home and studying from home. So that's been difficult. But it's also been nice to spend more time together with my family and around the house and around the neighborhood. Excellent. And so what's helped sustain you, besides your family? Nature, flowers. It's springtime and it's beautiful. It's been really nice weather. Cherry blossoms came out as the first thing and then tulips and other spring flowers are coming out. So that's been really nice to see the nature coming back to life. Trees and leaves and the trees, and running. So that's been really nice.

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Alright, and what about painting? My hobby of painting has helped me, as does alcohol, drinking bourbon and nice IPAs, hazy IPAs. That's been kind of life sustaining experience. And what do you hope that we learn from this whole experience moving forward? That we really need systemic change in this country to make the economy fair for all. My biggest hope is that people will realize that we need to decouple healthcare from employment. I grew up in the Soviet Union where we had very basic, but government provided health care for everybody. And it's always been a mystery to me as to how we've come to this situation that health care is tied to a person's place of employment, and there's so many people who are

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underinsured or the insurance is not working for them. But it just seems this crisis should be a call to action to mobilize people to pass a law that entitles everybody to good care. Hopefully Medicare for All will pass. Alright. Thank you.