Way Back Home: Learning What Home Really Means During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Producers: Arthi Inagandla, Angelina Karnsouvong, Jia Wen Wang, Runsu Gong

Description: This project is titled “Way Back Home” indicating the connection back to our Asian American communities during the struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our podcast seeks to tell the stories of different Asian Americans, the ways that they connected to their communities, reflections they made during this time about cultural differences, as well as the ways that they helped and served their communities. Our interviewees are Monica Wang, Jia Wen’s sister who is in high school, Joyce Chen, Arthi’s friend who was in Taiwan for the duration of the pandemic, and Sun Karnasouvong, a community leader for the Lao/Khmu community in Richmond. They will all be talking and reflecting on their experiences as Asian Americans during the pandemic, the things they and their community dealt with, as well as observations they had made about what it really means to be a part of the Asian American community.