Towards the end we were able to say Weve spoken with 70 people and weve traveled to 20 states and wed love to include you, Jinich says. The first day they made it to Chattanooga, Tennessee and conducted their first three interviews, prearranged through a friend from Penn. "We wanted to work on something together and so we decided, just two weeks before the spring semester started, to take it off and take on this project," Mr. Jinich said. Some stories they didnt realize they needed until they found them, like Faith, a woman they encountered in Utah who told them she was the first person in her county to contract COVID-19. By signing up for The Philadelphia Citizen newsletter: All memberships to The Philadelphia Citizen are renewed annually. By the end of it, Tyler and Jay introduced us to their whole family.. RELATED: Philly man sets out on a daunting mission to meet 10,000 strangers. They started by reaching out to several Penn faculty, including Kathy Peiss, history professor, Margo Natalie Crawford, English professor, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, associate professor of English and comparative literature, and writer Sam Apple, who teaches creative writing. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Using a vegetable peeler, peel each asparagus stalk, beginning 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the tips and peeling all the way down to the bottom. We wanted something tactile, something more physical in that way. What it means. But during the interviews, what really stood out to me was how a lot of young people recognized, in a really empathetic way, how lucky they were to be young during the pandemic. Log In or Sign Up Alan Janich See Photos Alan Jinio See Photos Jonash Alan See Photos Alan Jenish See Photos Alan Jreich See Photos Allan Jenish See Photos Alana Jovich See Photos They have also lived in Bethesda, MD. He spent his gap year studying Jewish Diaspora and Middle Eastern History. For some people, the pandemic reinforced being in a place that wasnt really safe or secure for you and you couldnt leave home. Carrots and hummus. So our first day, when we were in Greensboro, Alabama, we spent the whole day walking through Main Street of this very small town of 2,500 people and didnt get any interviews. Using a vegetable peeler, peel each asparagus stalk, beginning 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the tips and peeling all the way down to the bottom. And we made a loose syllabus with her and she kind got us thinking about an archive. Anas Mitchell, a singer-songwriter popularly known for creating the Broadway musical Hadestown, performs in the Zellerbach Theatre. Facebook; Twitter; Email; LinkedIn; Pati's oldest son, Alan is graduating from high school soon and heading off to college. Patricia Jinich (/ h i n i t / Born Patricia Drijanski, March 30, 1972) is a Mexican chef, TV personality, cookbook author, educator, and food writer.