Collected Item: “Maria Ignacio Ilas Oral History, 2023/02/16”
Title
Maria Ignacio Ilas
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Maria Ignacio Ilas
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#AsianAmerican, #balance, #bubble, #California, #campus, #Catholic, #christian, #diabetes, #family, #FilipinoAmerican, #games, #hospital, #Italy, #marriage, #mentorship, #mindfulness, #Minnesota, #motherhood, #nursing, #police, #prayer, #prolife, #touch, #university, #wedding
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Modesto, California
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
Female, She/Her
What is the age of the interviewee?
25 to 34
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
Filipino-American
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
- Following the pandemic in Italy in December 2019.
- Planning to get married November 2020, planning a ~170 person wedding, cancelling the venue.
- What getting married in June 2020 looked like; navigating guidelines in different California counties.
- Having an immunocompromised sibling and considering his safety needs; communicating long-distance with a brother in the military; supply chain impact on military food.
- Perspectives on health as a second-generation Filipino American.
- Entering the pandemic with medical knowledge, having gone to nursing school and changing career paths; hand washing.
- Having lots of friends and family who work in medicine: doctors, nurses.
- Running a pro-life non-profit at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Working remotely pre-pandemic and during the pandemic as a campus mentor.
- The difference between communicating in-person with voice and body language and communicating textually.
- Using pool noodles to measure 6 feet of distance at university club meetings.
- Husband working as an occupational therapist in a hospital; greeting husband coming home from work.
- Having family in Minnesota; the murder of George Floyd; watching the riots of summer 2020; destruction of private property.
- Looking at issues from both sides; rifts between friends based on politics.
- Having a brother in 8th grade who struggled during the pandemic; providing him with long distance support.
- Social relationships, comfort zones being pushed, the risks of injury that come with human social relationships.
Cultural References: Zoom, Black Lives Matter, What’s App, FaceTime, Nintendo
See also:
https://wedignify.org/maria
https://wedignify.regfox.com/ilmfl-individual-registration
- Following the pandemic in Italy in December 2019.
- Planning to get married November 2020, planning a ~170 person wedding, cancelling the venue.
- What getting married in June 2020 looked like; navigating guidelines in different California counties.
- Having an immunocompromised sibling and considering his safety needs; communicating long-distance with a brother in the military; supply chain impact on military food.
- Perspectives on health as a second-generation Filipino American.
- Entering the pandemic with medical knowledge, having gone to nursing school and changing career paths; hand washing.
- Having lots of friends and family who work in medicine: doctors, nurses.
- Running a pro-life non-profit at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Working remotely pre-pandemic and during the pandemic as a campus mentor.
- The difference between communicating in-person with voice and body language and communicating textually.
- Using pool noodles to measure 6 feet of distance at university club meetings.
- Husband working as an occupational therapist in a hospital; greeting husband coming home from work.
- Having family in Minnesota; the murder of George Floyd; watching the riots of summer 2020; destruction of private property.
- Looking at issues from both sides; rifts between friends based on politics.
- Having a brother in 8th grade who struggled during the pandemic; providing him with long distance support.
- Social relationships, comfort zones being pushed, the risks of injury that come with human social relationships.
Cultural References: Zoom, Black Lives Matter, What’s App, FaceTime, Nintendo
See also:
https://wedignify.org/maria
https://wedignify.regfox.com/ilmfl-individual-registration
On what date did you record this oral history?
2023-02-16T14:20