Clarence Kinnard UWM Oral History, May 5, 2021

Clarence Kinnard UWM Oral History, May 5, 2021

This audio file contains an oral history interview with Clarence Kinnard, a UWM undergraduate political science student who served as Vice President of Student Affairs of the UWM Student Association from November 2019 until his graduation in May 2021. Kinnard discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UWM and on the work of the Student Association, as well as on his personal life. Among the topics discussed is his role in pushing the university administration to make relief payments to student workers laid off during the pandemic, an effort which coincided with similarly successful efforts to have the U.S. federal government do the same. The interview was conducted remotely over Microsoft Teams on May 5, 2021 by UWM graduate history student Ben Schultz, with each participant’s audio recorded separately and contained separately in this .wav file.

Ben Schultz

May 5, 2021

Clarence Kinnard

Audio file

Oral history interview