Outside Leah Osann’s window, she says, "there is an abandoned plot and then the ocean. [It's] nice to see every morning." All seems well if you forget that until recently, she had woken up to the sound of the busy New York City streets.

Sumaya Mulla-Carillo is passionate about many things: traveling, baking, sewing, Ruth Badger Ginsberg, financial literacy, and the fact that the Upper East Side apartment she shares with her partner is (in her opinion) far too tiny for her Zoom dance rehearsals.

Kimberly Rullan is a 22-year-old cashier at Stop & Shop in her hometown of Greenvale, Long Island. She lives with her grandmother and began working for Stop & Shop three and a half years ago. She spoke about how coronavirus has affected her both at work and at home.

Once inside Hunter College’s Frederick Loewe Theatre, it’s hard to miss the Feb. 20 crowd of about 30 lining the wall and filling the cushioned seats of the theatre’s packed hallway. A red-ribboned shrine of playbills glistens as conversations, and the melodic tones of string instruments merge. The unmistakable lilt of a young girl’s voice soars high above the noise as she questions her mother about the sounds she’s hearing.