Riding the Coronacoaster: Learning, Teaching, and Living at a Health Sciences Campus during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This collaborative autoethnography examines how we (four students and a professor of community-engaged research) used our experiences to make sense life during COVID‑19. Engaging in collective approach autoethnographic writing, highlight different perspectives cultural moment shaped by the science denialism untruths that define US governmental practices approaches pandemic. We share are dealing with COVID‑19 discourses run counter scientific foregrounding STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) health medical sciences training, reflect on role pandemic shifting post-baccalaureate plans, navigate lockdown while participating racial justice protests Minneapolis, examine being essential healthcare workers school. By situating these ways learning, teaching, engaging as portents difficulties may continue face, show possibilities narrative methods imagining implementing post-pandemic grounded praxis community care.