This week, we spoke with with Ryan Hagen, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at Columbia University who focuses on risk and organizational resilience. He is also the co-director of the New York Covid-19 Oral History, Memory and Narrative Archive at Columbia, a project that is documenting the experiences of a broad swath of New Yorkers in order to understand how the pandemic is unfolding and to help us fight the next public health crisis. While the national discussion over when and how to reopen public spaces may seem like a partisan one, Ryan says that most Americans don’t see it that way. Watch our interview to hear what he had to say.