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Film, Video Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-02

Video recording of interview with Kari Northey conducted by Joél Maldonado.

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Title

  • Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-02

Summary

  • Kari Northey is a funeral director, embalmer, and a mom to two little girls. She has been in the funeral service industry for 30 years and licensed for 22 years. In this interview, Northey shares her COVID-19 experience as a freelance License Funeral Director/Licensed Embalmer at a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based funeral home. She speaks about her relationships with clients pre- and post-COVID, how "saying no" was the norm when funeral professionals strive to be "yes people," and the potential challenges of embalming when the decedent is known to have had COVID-19.

Names

  • Northey, Kari, interviewee
  • Maldonado, Joél Simone, interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-06-02.

Headings

  • -  Northey, Kari--Interviews
  • -  Undertakers and undertaking--United States--Interviews
  • -  Undertakers and undertaking--Michigan
  • -  Working mothers
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Moral and ethical aspects

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Recorded virtually via Zoom, 2024-06-02.
  • -  Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 1 video file (MOV, 58:50) : digital, sound, color
  • 1 photograph : digital, color, JPG
  • 1 document file (PDF) : digital, text

Source Collection

  • Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 AFC 2023/018

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655322

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  • pdf
  • video

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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:

Northey, Kari, Interviewee, and Joél Simone Maldonado. Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-02. -06-02, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655322/.

APA citation style:

Northey, K. & Maldonado, J. S. (2024) Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-02. -06-02. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655322/.

MLA citation style:

Northey, Kari, Interviewee, and Joél Simone Maldonado. Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, -06-02. -06-02, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655322/>.