A piece I reported and produced about the role of a hospital chaplain in a New York City hospital during COVID-19
Connect//Ed – an audio documentary
Every so often at the end of last year, librarians received thank-you emails from older New Yorkers, grateful for the variety of online programs they’d been offering since closing their doors in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Citywide, libraries have proven themselves to be crucial centers for the community for years. And for older adults, the pandemic offered renewed proof of how invaluable libraries were to their livelihood.
What began as a distraction from the day to day, became something more as the pandemic intensified. The longer these older adults had to stay at home, away from each other and from their loved ones, the more they came to rely on these virtual workshops. They read and wrote poems, painted and created collages, expressed their anguish through art. They also found friendship and community. They found relief and a way to speak their mind.
(Originally published on CUNY’s Audio Doc page)
Home Office – an exercise in creating immersive audio
(Best listened to with earphones)
New Yorkers on their favorite places closing during the pandemic
Ice Cream Renaissance (Audio Report)
We could be living in the renaissance of ice cream and we don’t even know it. Growing palates and attention to terms like ‘small batch’ and ‘craft’ have hit the ice cream business, where a number of creameries have established themselves as purveyors of the new and diverse, in both flavor and method.
Read MoreIntersections: Art & Space in Shanghai
In Shanghai, as creative clusters become more popular with tourists, rent has doubled or tripled, effectively driving away many artists and gallerists who could not afford to pay much more money. Over the course of a few years, M50 has become an area filled with more coffee shops than a space for artists to make and show their art.
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