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Audio Recording DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-29

DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-29
Audio recording of interview with DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch conducted by Nicole Musgrave.

About this Item

Title

  • DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-29

Summary

  • Jackie Branch is the director of Living Water Child Care & Learning Center in Williamson, West Virginia, which she opened in 1999. DeAuna Artis is a lead teacher at Living Water. DeAuna works primarily with the preschool-aged children and has worked at Living Water for 13 years. The child care center is affiliated with Living Water Church, an Assemblies of God Church pastored by Jackie's husband. In the interview, DeAuna and Jackie discuss their professional trajectories into childcare; how Jackie helped found the child care center as a response to community needs; how DeAuna incorporates faith-based learning into her work; becoming a critical child care site for the children of essential workers; how they adapted to COVID-related safety protocols and virtual learning; the stress and worry they experienced during the pandemic; the pandemic-related support the center received; increased employee turnover; and the increased validation child care workers received during the pandemic.

Names

  • Branch, Jackie K., interviewee
  • Artis, DeAuna, interviewee, photographer
  • Musgrave, Nicole, 1987- interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-01-29.

Headings

  • -  Artis, DeAuna--Interviews
  • -  Branch, Jackie K.--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--West Virginia
  • -  Child care workers--Appalachian Region--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Appalachian Region
  • -  Children of working parents
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Religious aspects
  • -  Work and family
  • -  Work environment
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030
  • Sound recordings
  • Personal narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Recorded at the Living Water Child Care and Learning Center, Williamson, West Virginia, January 29, 2024.
  • -  It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 1 sound recording (1:20:28, WAV) : digital
  • 11 photographs : digital, color, TIF
  • 1 manuscript (PDF) : digital

Source Collection

  • It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project AFC 2023/017

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655287

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  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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  • image
  • pdf

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Credit line

It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Branch, Jackie K., Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave, Artis, Deauna, Interviewee, photographer. DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-29. -01-29, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655287/.

APA citation style:

Branch, J. K. & Musgrave, N., Artis, D., photographer. (2024) DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-29. -01-29. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655287/.

MLA citation style:

Branch, Jackie K., Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave, photographer by Artis, Deauna, Interviewee. DeAuna Artis and Jackie Branch interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-29. -01-29, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655287/>.