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Collected Item: “Jacqueline Mendez Oral History, 2021/11/29”

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Zaragoza Team Leader Interview with Jacqueline Mendez

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This is an interview with Zaragoza Leader Jacqueline Mendez about her experience as a student orientation leader during the summer of 2021. She describes her role as a Zaragoza leader and how her student orientation experience prior to the pandemic differed from those of her students during the summer with COVID-19.

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This interview offers personal insight to the effects of the pandemic as a new student attending St. Mary's. Jackie was able to connect her experience as a leader during the pandemic to her time enjoying Zaragoza as a new student prior to the pandemic. She describes the precautions that the university took during the summer during June of 2021 and August of 2021 when variants of the virus were changing and the state adopted different CDC guidelines.

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#coveryourfangs, HS6301, Zaragoza

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Alicia Martinez

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2021-11-29
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