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  • Collection: Oral History Collection

Kim Sauer

Kim Sauer Interview.docx.pdf
Kim Sauer shares her experience as a Korean-American in Washington living through the pandemic. Throughout the course of the interview, she shares how COVID has affected herself and her family as well as how she has supported the Korean-American…

Lori Wada

Lori Wada Interview.docx.pdf
Lori Wada shares her experience as a Korean American in living through the pandemic. Through the interview she shares how her work with Korean-American businesses changed throughout the COVID and why she chooses to center her work in Eastern…

Mandy Ma

Mandy Ma Interview (English).docx.pdf
Mandy Ma shares her experience as a Korean American social worker supporting Korean elderly in the Greater Seattle Area during the pandemic. She also shares aspects of her personal life during quarantine and how she believes pandemic has affected our…

Michael Ake

Michael Ake Interview.docx.pdf
Michael Ake shares his experience as a Korean American growing up in a military family and how the pandemic has affected his job as a police officer. He describes how the Black Lives Matter Movementaffected his own department and how he has hope for…

Michael Park

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Michael Park shares his experience growing up in the ever changing Federal Way area. He also comments about how the pandemic has affected his jobs both at the laundromat and at the Korean Language School.

Ming-Ming Edelman

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Refugee Artists Initiative -- mask-making (Ming-Ming describes here experience as a business going from selling potholders to one that sold masks nearly overnight as the pandemic quickly ensued.

Monyee Chau

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Taiwanese American artist and activist, talks about love for CID (she grew up there), fears and hardships during early days of pandemic, making artwork to support the neighborhood and BLM, race/identity issues among APA communities

Nathan Vass

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Mixed race Korean American bus driver, writer, photographer/filmmaker talks about experiences as front-line transit worker during covid, concerns about catching virus, effect of pandemic on passengers, inequities deepened, treating everyone with…

Prenz Sa-Ngoun

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Cambodian American, talks about Food Life Line org that provides food to food banks, supply issues in early days of pandemic, harships of food bank clients and Cambodian community, how his faith and experience as a Buddhist priest have shaped his…