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Specifically, Davis-Nealy recalls that at her new elementary school in Queens, her mother had to dispell racial stereotypes and advocate for her to be placed in a class that fit her high level of academic performance. Davis-Nealy describes her love of going to school as a child, her interest in science in middle school and high school, and her decision in college to become a teacher. Davis-Nealy began teaching in Harlem during the early 1990s; she subsequently transitioned to roles focused on training and development of school staff and later became Assistant Principal at P.S. 21 in Whitestone. She has served as Principal of P.S. 165 since 2016 and also co-chairs the education committee of the NAACP Jamaica Branch.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDavis-Nealy speaks about the personal toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on her family as well as the pandemic's toll on Flushing and Southeast Queens. She explains that the pandemic has revealed food, housing, and health care insecurity in both areas of Queens while also sparking a large amount of grassroots community support (e.g. food drives and distribution of masks and hand sanitizer). Davis-Nealy also reflects on the ongoing impact of police violence against Black people, particularly regarding the deaths of Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. 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Tiffany, if you can say and spell your name for me, please.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=0.0,6.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Tiffany, T-I-F-F-A-N-Y, last name Davis-Nealy, D-A-V-I-S, hyphen, N-E-A-L-Y.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=6.0,16.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Great! And because we need your permission to use this audio, if you can say, I first name, last name consent the Queens Public Library's use of this content.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=16.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: I, Tiffany Davis-Nealy, consent for the Queens Public Library to use this information—to use this information or this content.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=26.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Great! How would you describe yourself?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=35.0,40.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: How would I describe myself? I am an outgoing, articulate, passionate server. And when I say server, serving in terms of education, of all kinds of youth and all kinds of families, and server in terms of—I'll just say, education. So, I am a career educator starting out as a teacher in Harlem, USA over 25 years ago. And I've moved through the ranks from becoming a teacher to a staff developer, to an assistant principal, and now a principal in Flushing, Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=40.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: But, that's one part of who I am. Most importantly, I'm a mother of a 19 year old student who goes to Queens College. And a lot of decisions that I make are based upon who I am as a mother, wanting the best for my child and therefore extending the best to other people's children. And I just believe that I've been blessed with an abundance of gifts and talents. And when you are given so many gifts and talents, it is your responsibility to give back to your community. So, describing myself, you know, I'm a change agent, I'm a giver, I'm a thinker, I'm a mom, I'm an educator. I'm an activist. I'm an educator. And I tell good jokes every now and again, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=80.0,128.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Good, thanks! Talk to me about how your family got to Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=128.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So in 1980—I was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and in 1981, we moved to South Ozone Park or South Richmond Hill because my mother and father wanted their children to grow up in a house with a big yard. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, we lived in a small apartment. And, during those, during the late seventies, Bedford-Stuyvesant was a culturally rich area, but it also was rich with a lot of unsavory behaviors where you didn't want your children exposed to. So, my parents wanted a big house and a yard where we can go outside and we can play and we didn't have to worry about the landlord saying, \"Don't play in this yard, or sit on this stoop.\" They wanted a yard for us because they didn't want us to worry about violence on the streets. So, in 1981, we moved to South Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park, and that's where my journey began.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=135.0,194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And I actually lived in South Ozone Park from 1981 up until I went to college, moved back to Brooklyn, stayed in Brooklyn for many, many years, and became priced out of Park Slope, Brooklyn. And I came back in 2003, back to the same neighborhood where I went to elementary, middle school and high school. And I moved back into my neighborhood and fell back in love because the neighborhood had shifted and changed a little bit more. You saw, when we moved there in 1981, you saw more White faces. And they were moving out, the White flight was moving out of the neighborhood, and more Brown faces from different Caribbean islands, more so Trinidad and Guyana. And then, when I came back in the 2000s, it was heavy, heavy in this community. A lot of people from the islands, mostly Guyana. So that's—I've been a diehard Southeast Queens person most of my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=194.0,257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Got it, got it. And talk to me about your journey into education.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=257.0,263.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, I always found my voice as a student. When I was in kindergarten, I fell in love with my music teacher. She was amazing. She—I just looked at her as a, an extension to my family. And from the time I was five, I loved going to school. Like again, I said, I was raised in Beford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. I went to P.S. 40 in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. And it—when I walked into the halls of P.S. 40, I felt special. I felt loved. I felt valued. I felt like it was just an extension of my family. I was pushed, I was motivated, and I just loved being at school. I loved being in, like, being in the classroom, seeing the hallway, seeing the teachers, engaging with friends. And that always stayed with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=263.0,309.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, I have to say, my early education was phenomenal in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Moved to Queens in fifth grade, went school in District 28, P.S. 121. And at first it was a little interesting because when I moved to Queens, they wanted, the school did not necessarily want to put me—we were tracked back then. And I was always in like, K-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1. I was always what was considered in the advanced class. I moved to South Ozone Park, Queens, and because I was coming from Bedford-Stuyvesant, my mother had to really use strong advocacy skills to get me in the class that was—the class that was for me based on my reading and math ability. And so, what's interesting is, when we first got to the school, we were told, \"Oh, you know, she's coming from Brooklyn, we're going to give her an easier class to ease in.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=309.0,364.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And my mother said, \"She's in fifth grade, but she reads on the eleventh grade level. Are you kidding me?\" And so, they were trying to kind of place me where they thought I should be based on where I came from. But thank goodness my mother had very strong advocacy skills and we had data to substantiate that I was supposed to be in a certain class. But that always stood with me, and it made me say, \"Aren't they looking at my data? Don't they see? What is different about Queens and Brooklyn? Why is it that there was an assumption that I was not as good because I came from Bed-Stuy?\" So during my two years in that elementary school, it was actually wonderful, where I did end up graduating in the top, as one of the top five students in that building. But it stayed with me that, at first, when I got there, they did not believe that I was capable because I had not taken the educational journey with them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=364.0,421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And I proved that I was actually even better than most of the students that they had cultivated for the last five or six years. And again, during my time there, I had phenomenal, phenomenal teachers. Then I went to middle school in Howard Beach, in a special science program. And that was really interesting too because in this specialized program, I didn't really see any Black or Brown people in the science program. And it just made me feel like, wait, whoa, I'm holding on to my culture. I have to make sure that I excel here, because I am not going to be a weak link on behalf of—this is in my mind as a middle schooler—I said, \"I can't be a weak link on behalf of the Black race.\" So yeah, so in middle school, I was in a special science program and excelled there. And then I went to John Adams High School and went there into a special program and loved that program.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=421.0,483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So ultimately, I felt like I was destined to be an educator. I thought I was going to be a scientist. And then, when I got to college, I had taken so much science since middle school through high school, I decided, I don't want to do that. So I studied psychology and education and African-American history. And I just decided that I was going to be a teacher because I felt that teachers shaped my life positively and poured into me and I wanted to give that back. And I especially wanted to give that back to Black and Brown children. That's why I started teaching in Harlem in the 1990s, actually a wonderful, wonderful, small Title I school titled P.S., it was P.S. 76, 121st Street between Seventh and Eighth in the heart of Harlem in the early 90s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=483.0,538.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Got it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=538.0,538.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Oh, I almost forgot! I just talked about teaching.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=538.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Yeah! Let's get it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=540.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: After teaching, you know, I loved being a classroom teacher. I loved working with students. But then my principal said, \"I'd like you to work with teachers.\" And I had not seen that in myself because I was very happy and just working with kiddos. She tapped me, pulled me out of the classroom and said, \"I want you to work with teachers.\" And that was the beginning of training adults. And therefore, I became a coach in [the] building, left the building, went to District Three, which is the Upper West Side of Manhattan up into Harlem, did that for a few years, left. I was approached by Teachers College, Columbia University to come to be a national consultant. I decided to do that for nine years where I had the ability to travel the country and different school systems from urban to suburban to rural, all the way from Long Island, all the way to California and every state in between.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=540.0,601.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: I even had the opportunity to work in the Middle East and Dubai training teachers and principals during my time when I was at Teachers College. The travel was amazing. It was great. But then I also had—I have a husband and a daughter, and I wanted to be home more. And I decided to go back to the Department of Education and I became an Assistant Principal in one of the schools where I was actually a consultant in Whitestone, Queens. Stayed there for three years as an Assistant Principal and loved my time as an Assistant Principal at P.S. 21 in Whitestone. Three years and then next thing you know, I was—I would have never left—I was tapped again and asked to be a Principal in Flushing, Queens. And I looked at the school, I looked at the demographics and the school was mostly Asian-American kiddos, Asian, Latinx, White and Black. And it was just a beautiful mix of all kinds of cultures and races and religions. And students with all kinds of abilities from Gifted and Talented to self contained to students on the spectrum. And I thought it was just the right place for me. And now, I've just completed my fourth year as a Principal of a wonderfully amazing school in Flushing, Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=601.0,681.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Amazing, amazing. And talk to me a little bit about how COVID has impacted you personally and your work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=681.0,689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So COVID—I don't want to get teary-eyed, but I will say, my father just passed away in June, actually June 18th. He was a Vietnam vet and he lived at the St. Albans Veterans Home. And when COVID hit, it really impacted my family terribly. We were unable to visit him, and not just him, but no one could visit the nursing homes. And he was also a dialysis patient. So COVID, when he became COVID positive, we were like, \"How is he positive? No one can get in and out of the nursing home.\" It negatively impacted him because he had to go to dialysis, and the place where he was going to dialysis rejected him because he was COVID positive. So it was a search to find a dialysis center that would take a COVID positive person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=689.0,743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So it was a really hard time and a hard journey, and he'd just, he just became sicker, other ailments. He was sick with a couple of ailments and then just, COVID just, you know, illuminated a lot of the inequities and a lot of the shortcomings in the system for the nursing home. Ultimately, he did pass away in June, but it was not due to COVID. It was due to, through other things, but he was a victim of COVID because when he became ill, he did not receive the care that he had gotten before. He did not have the family being able to come in and advocate and notice and address things. And so he was a victim of COVID. He did not die from COVID, but had this pandemic not happened he would still be alive today, because he did not have [the] support [he] needed. So, personally, COVID wrecked my life, losing my father, losing the rock of the family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=743.0,813.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Personally, I would say COVID really gave me a window into the lives of my 700 families. And myself and my staff, we learned a lot about students and their lives and where they come from and their day to day reality. And we started to really understand that we had to check our biases and check our privilege, and know that it's hard out here. So, during COVID, I noticed a lot of food insecurity, even in this area that's considered a very upper middle class neighborhood where homes are 600,000 to a million dollars. But, nestled inside of that community are people who are struggling, people who didn't have adequate health care. So COVID revealed the ugly side of inequities in Queens, New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=813.0,875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, my school was a site where we served food, and originally we would get like a hundred people a day. We actually started getting—we went from a hundred to about 500. We went—then we moved into 1,500, approximately 1,500 meals were served a day in this, you know, if you look at it surfacely, it looked like this very affluent community, but inside of that affluent community was pockets of poverty. And so, many of my kiddos, what we thought that they had, they didn't necessarily have. Remote learning was—so COVID also illuminated some, just things that we just did not necessarily know was happening with families. And through remote learning, when you're putting on the screen and you're seeing kids at home, you know, you're seeing their families. We learned a lot. We really learned a lot, but we also learned that our families were resilient. We also learned that many families have multiple generations in the home. So it was very common to have a great grandmother, a grandmother, parents, and kids all in one small space together trying to survive together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=875.0,954.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, COVID, whew! We learned, I learned a lot, we as a school, as a community, we learned a lot. And then I can just talk a little bit about working as the co-chair for the education committee for the NAACP [National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People] Jamaica Branch. And again, what's so interesting is, I also saw a lot of food insecurity, home insecurity, healthcare insecurity in Southeast Queens as well, where many people, they just needed information and they wanted information. And so COVID really revealed that New York City is a wonderful place, but inside, if you dig deeper, there's a lot of people that are in need. There's a lot of people who need support. There's a lot of people that are not informed, not because they don't want to be, it's just, they may not know how to get the information. And COVID made a lot of us realize we're all in the same boat. We're all in the same boat. We may just be one paycheck ahead of someone else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=954.0,1018.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: But COVID also made people come together to support one another. So, I can say in the last few months, I have seen so many food drives. I've seen so many mask drives. I've seen so many hand sanitizer drives. I've seen local politicians coming together with community activists and just everyday people saying, \"How can I help?\" So, while COVID did illuminate a lot of the dredges and the hardships in New York, it also showed the resilience where people would say, \"How can I help? How can I stand up? How can I be of support?\" And of course, NAACP, we are an advocacy organization, so we did not stop meeting. So while we didn't meet in person, we had online meetings and we were reaching out to the community saying, \"How can I help? Do you need masks? How can we get these masks to you? Do you need food? Meet us at this—\" you know, \"Meet us here.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1018.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And we'll be partnering with this local politician, or we'll be partnering with a network, or we'll be partnering with other groups of like minded people. I have seen so many community service organizations just say, \"I'm here and I can help and I have a lot to offer.\" And I've seen it with a range of people in terms of age and passion and ethnicity. Every week I'm getting a new flyer about coming out to distribute food, or coming out and giving feminine products to women who were not able to go out and get feminine products, or hand sanitizers or masks. So, COVID has really taught us that we are better together when we come together and we support one another in non-judgmental ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1080.0,1133.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Indeed. And what I also learned, you know, in the midst of a pandemic, we have the murder of George Floyd, the murder of Breonna Taylor. Talk to me about how those have played, those two murders have played in, you know, the role in your activism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1133.0,1153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, I'm going to tell you, my sorority sister, her name is Sandra Bland, and I'm sure you know her name. And that was when it hit me up close and personal, up close and personal that when you leave your home, just a woman going for, like, leaving to go for a new job, it's a possibility that you might not come home. And it hit me—this was years ago when this happened. And I, you know, I saw it on the news, I was angry. You know, we wrote letters, we advocated. But when it happened, when my sorority sister, Sandra Bland, did not make it to her destination, when she left her family and left her mom and her sisters and she was going for, traveling to go start a new career, a new life, and that interaction with a police officer altered her trajectory—therefore, her dying at such a young age, it hit me and it made me say, \"Wow. She is me. I am her. We are together.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1153.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And when I think about what's been happening in the last few months, I've been outraged. I've been angry. I've, you know, gone to marches, but also, I've also been thinking once we [unclear] marching, what's next? After the march and the crowds are gone, what's next? And so, the brutal death of this beautiful young woman in her own home, it just makes me want to like tear up because I'm a mother of a young Black woman. The death, her brutal death, and no one has paid for that? That's truly bothersome to me because I am her. She is me. We are the same. You know, to see a man allegedly give 20 dollars—we don't really know the inner details of that—but for 20 dollars, this man was, he lost his life and he was humiliated and [unclear] hear him call for his mother because of something so simple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1220.0,1284.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: You're forever changed when you see those things, when you see the bullets in Breonna's home, when you see, you heard the cries of this grown man calling for his mother, you're forever changed. What I will say is, that helped us, and I'll say as, from the NAACP, really make sure that we are in more conversations with the Police Department, right? We are talking to young people about what do you need to do to stay alive so that you can get to your destination or you can get home to your families the next day. So again, these terrible happenings, because I'm an educator, I automatically go to, how can we educate Black and Brown children to keep themselves safe? How can we equip them with the language and the tools and the intellect to be able to live another day?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1284.0,1344.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And it's terrible that we have to even talk to our children this way. It's terrible that, you know, I have a nephew who's 16, I have a brother who's 25, and these conversations are like, I need you to stay alive. I need you to understand how to interface and how to interact when you are pulled over. I have a daughter who's 19, who's very, very scholarly, and I'm teaching her how to interact and how to be calm, how to use her words, her body language, to stay alive. And when you think of, this is America 2020, many Black and Brown people have built this nation and still, we still have to teach our children how to survive when they come into situations with some police officers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1344.0,1395.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, these incidences have fueled me to make sure that we are talking and coaching and supporting young Black girls and boys around, how do I interact with an officer? What do I say? What do I do? How do I make sure that I can live another day? It terrifies and it saddens me to say this, but that's just our reality. But I also want to say there are a lot of police officers—I actually have a really good girlfriend, she just became the Chief of Police in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. And she lives, she actually lives in Jamaica, Queens, and she goes out into the community all the time to say, I am you, you are me, we are the same, and to build these relationships. And so, I really respect those police officers that understand that when you come into certain communities, it's not about you, it's about you learning the community. It's about you understanding that you serve the people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1395.0,1463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, these incidences, I've really been engaged in more conversations with officers and people who lead organizations that can teach people about relationships and teach people about how to interact with police officers. And I'm looking forward to meeting with more police officers so that they know that this is heavy on our minds. It's not just heavy on the mind of the young people, it is heavy on the mind of us as the people who are servants, right? We are servants, and we want to make sure that our kids are safe, our families are safe. So, these protests are now leading into action or leading into conversations. And when people come together and they have conversations, it's hard to hate someone that you've sat down with and you've spoken to. It's hard to be evil when you sat at the table.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1463.0,1522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And, what I've come to learn is we are more alike than different, but people see the differences when they see our melanated skin. And sometimes it, you know, having this beautiful super power called melanin sometimes makes people afraid. And we want to say like, \"You don't need to be afraid. We are like you. I am like you, you are like me. We are the same.\" And that's what we're trying to get people to understand. And the last few months of police brutality, killing of people of color, it is really about saying, \"Uh-uh, no, we're not taking this anymore.\" And what's also beautiful is our Latin brothers and sisters, our White brothers and sisters, are walking beside us saying, \"No! I can't stand and watch you doing this.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1522.0,1579.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, what I've also loved about—inside of all the turmoil, there has been some beauty. I love that I can see multi-generations, multi-racial people standing up and saying, \"You know what? Black lives do matter.\" And we wouldn't have to say that if, you know, we were treated with respect. We wouldn't have to say that if we were, I'll just go back to if we were treated with respect, but again, people see the melanation, and while it is a wonderful strength, it targets us. And so, you know, we are just all working to make sure that people understand that we ought to be respected, we will give respect, and that we are here to work in unison with everyone. No one wants adversity, but if you bring adversity, we are going to stand up for ourselves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1579.0,1636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And now, we have other partners and friends standing up for ourselves. I think about Colin [Kaepernick]. Colin, who took a knee years ago, and now all of his buddies are taking a knee. Why now, you know? But I'm glad it's happening because now, other people other than African-Americans are seeing, ooh, wait a minute. They really are not—they aren't treated fairly. They aren't. And the thing that makes the whole world just so different is, it's always been like that, but now it's captured. And now it's on the news, and now it's on all social media. So, thank goodness that we have social media and that we have the news to be able to capture the brutality against Black and Brown people because I really think that other people didn't—they thought we were exaggerating, but now they see it up close and personal.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1636.0,1690.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And I say, when I heard George screaming for his mother, that would affect anyone. When Breonna was home in her house, that would affect anyone. George is somebody's son, somebody's father, somebody's best friend. Breonna is, you know, someone's daughter, a loved one, a colleague. And that's impacted all of us, and I know it's impacted me. And when I see these things, I move to action. And, it's all about, how can we educate police, our community members, children, teens, young adults on how to show their best selves, be our best selves, and advocate for ourselves in situations where we can thrive. I hope I answered that question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1690.0,1735.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: You've answered seven questions that I have [laughter]. This is the last question that I have for you. What does—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1735.0,1741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: I feel passionate about stuff. I'm passionate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1741.0,1745.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Oh, I get it. I'm with you. I'm with you a thousand percent. And I guess the last question is two fold. What does life look like after COVID for education and for Southeast Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1745.0,1759.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, life after COVID, I'm not really sure I know that because I believe COVID is going to be around for quite some time. So I'll say, life with COVID, because I don't know when it's really going to be over. So I'm going to say, as we learn to navigate COVID, because we are learning stuff all the time. When we first became informed about COVID, we thought it was only one group of people that were susceptible to it. And then, over the last few months, we've come to learn that COVID does not discriminate. COVID will enter you if you're a child that has a certain name, if you're a young adult, if you're an older adult, if you have a compromised system.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1759.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So COVID is an enemy to all. Now, it has affected us because of other health issues that we may have, so life after COVID is, or life with COVID and after COVID is, keeping yourself safe. When you interact, when you go out, make sure that you're wearing your mask. Make sure that you are washing your hands. Make sure that you have eye coverings. You know, life with COVID is, being really careful of the company you keep. Life with COVID is, make sure you're healthy, eat well, walk, exercise. Life with COVID is, get your mental health right. You want to have this alignment between mind, body, and spirit. So, one thing about COVID, it has really made people stop—stop and slow down and reflect. So, it's interesting because again, I live in South Side Queens and now through COVID we have to slow our lives down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1799.0,1861.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: So, I see families taking walks in the neighborhood. I go to 150th Park, I see people on the track, many more people than I've seen before, because we were forced to slow down. We were forced to stop and rethink. We were forced to reimagine our lives. So, we are thinking about being healthier. I see more people buying water bottles. It's just interesting. Even looking at the advertisement that's coming across my screens, I'm seeing fanny packs, because people are out walking more. I'm seeing gigantic water bottles with inspirational quotes saying, \"You can do it. Drink more water.\" I'm seeing people eating fresh, healthier food. I don't even know, I don't want to stutter, but I'm just seeing us trying to be better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1861.0,1914.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Now, life after COVID, I still think it's what it is now. To stop, slow down, to tell the people you love that you love them. To prioritize what really matters. And it's interesting because COVID has made me really stop and say, what's a big problem in life and what's a little problem? It has really helped me and I think other people say, \"Hmm, that right there, that doesn't even really matter. This is what really matters.\" It helps you put things in perspective. It helps you tell those people that you love and that are close to you and say to them, you know, I love you. I value you. Thank you. Thank you. Please. You know, please and thank you. Those kinds of words, I feel like they're coming out of mouths of people more often. Life after COVID? I don't know what life after COVID is, but I do know is, life during COVID, we've had to learn to be better. We've also had to learn how to not get caught up in just nonsense because the reality of it, a few months ago, I kept hearing many of us complain about not doing our hair and nails, but we survived it, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1914.0,1988.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Not being able to go out to parties, but we survived it. And what I want people to take away from this is, I need us to be healthy. I need us to be safe. I need us to make good decisions so that we can come out on the other side of COVID and have a wonderful life, but still slowing down, being thankful, saying please to people, acknowledging when someone is helping you, and still that kind of passion for service and giving back and education. So, COVID is—we have lost many, many, many, many people by COVID. However, this is an opportunity for us to learn and grow and to better ourselves. And I always say, \"It starts inward, then it goes outward, and then we can go upward.\" And Southeast Queens, let me tell you, I'm so proud to represent Southeast Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=1988.0,2044.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Let me tell you, there's a lot of people out here supporting one another and you may not even know it, because they're not out here doing it to get accolades. They're doing it because it's the right thing to do, to help a sister or to help a brother. So Southeast Queens, there were food drives. There are cleanups. I was just cleaning garbage on Mott Avenue with some young people in fraternities and sororities a few weeks ago, and we were walking up and down Mott Avenue, cleaning it up. Then, people were on Jamaica Avenue, cleaning up Jamaica Avenue. People are in, on Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park, giving women's products to women in need.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2044.0,2090.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: Tomorrow, I think there's someone, there's a group of us, we're going to paint one of those historical places. And I don't even remember where it is, but it needs a paint job. And they reached out to a couple of us. We're going to go paint the fences because we want Southeast Queens to be beautiful for us. Not for people who want to now move into Southeast Queens because it's convenient and close to transportation, or for the new builders. No, we want to make sure that [unclear] Southeast Queens is for us, and that we respect it, we take care of it, and we take care of one another. So Southeast Queens, we're doing some, you know, some wonderful, wonderful things. There's a lot of our politicians who are right there with us, working with us, guiding us, supporting us, cleaning with us, doing community service with us, advocating with us. I feel good. I feel so proud of Southeastern Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2090.0,2149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: And I know we're going to go from good to great because we have so many people who have a vested interest in making sure that our schools are better, that our streets are cleaner, that our homes are safer, that we're building stronger relationships with the local police departments, and that we have just people advocating for us. So, I'm proud. I'm proud. I'm proud of South—I'm so proud to live in Southeast Queens. I'm so proud to serve in Southeast Queens. And I work in Flushing, Queens, which is really not too far. So I get to see two aspects of Queens and we're doing some good work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2149.0,2194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: NAACP is doing some great work. Some of the other local organizations, fraternities and sororities, service-based organizations, religious organizations—there's just so many people who are saying, \"How can I help in Southeast Queens?\" And it's just amazing. I feel like I'm in really good company when we go out to support our local communities. I'm a very proud South Side girl.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2194.0,2226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: That's it. That's a wrap. I don't got nothing else to ask [laughter]. That is it. That is it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2226.0,2233.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tiffany Davis-Nealy: I feel like I sound crazy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2233.0,2236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473/transcript/78699/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syreeta Gates: Nah, you do not sound crazy! You do not sound, wait, hold on. Let me stop the recording. LOL!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/146596/file/270473#t=2236.0,2241.952"}]}]}]}