Interview 024 with Quincy Evans

Listen to Quincy Evans, MBA, share his experience living on Long Island, New York with his family during the pandemic and working from home while his two young children went to school online in the spring of 2020, and then returned to in-person-classes in the fall of 2020. He worked for a financial institution that had the technology to allow him to easily work from home during the pandemic. He shares that the spring of 2020 was a lost academic time for children. Born and raised in The Bronx, Quincy speaks on how the Covid-19 pandemic illuminated socio-economic-racial divides in the U.S.A. Speaking on economic disparity in the U.S.A, Quincy notes that the pandemic “really exposed the haves versus the have nots. Not every household had internet access in the city. If you had access, you didn’t have a device… And that’s one thing that you realized, that you just take for granted. I remember when the pandemic hit, I bought my kids Chromebooks off of Groupon in January of 2020 and then all of the sudden there were no Chromebooks left, because everyone needed to buy a Chromebook to do school from home…” Quincy identifies as Black and African American. We met when we were students in Prep 9 — a rigorous academic program that prepares students of color to attend boarding school. He attended Phillips Academy Andover and I attended The Taft School.