The Living Archives welcomes Alesha Lackey to our project. Alesha is a branch manager of Allegra Westbrooks Library with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System. She talks about how her family navigated COVID and balancing work and family. The Living Archives Project (www.livingarchivesclt.org) is a collaboration between the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, the Levine Museum, Johnson C Smith University and the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. The project aims to capture and preserve the stories of marginalized communities in Mecklenburg County through the COVID-19 pandemic. These communities are rarely included in traditional archives and this effort will preserve those stories for generations of researchers and descendants in the future. We are scheduling interviews with anyone who would like to share and archive their pandemic experience through 2023.