What We Gained and What We Lost in Covid
Four stories in English and Spanish from bilingual journalists
Category: “A Better Life?”
“A Better Life?” explores how America’s failed response to COVID-19 has reshaped immigrants’ lives and their relationship to the United States. Each episode tells a different immigrant story and examines how the crisis has challenged or changed that person’s ideas of what it means to be American.
The show also includes conversations with immigrant elders — grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles — to hear how they are coping during this time, and what they have learned over the years that can help the rest of us survive today’s challenges.
Worthy of Telling Our Own Story
A live conversation with three Feet in 2 Worlds journalists about their work serving multiple audiences in both Spanish and English.
Whose Chinatown? “A Better Life?” Podcast
Covid highlights long-standing divisions in an iconic L.A. neighborhood
Getting it Right: “A Better Life?” Podcast
Confronting Covid Misinformation in Immigrant Communities
On the Sidelines: “A Better Life?” Podcast
How did Covid affect immigrant workers in major league sports?
Tested: “A Better Life?” Podcast
Latino Students in North Carolina Return to the Classroom
I Want to Stay Here, Just Not Forever: “A Better Life?” Podcast
Covid’s impact on an international student in Wyoming
Delivering Community: “A Better Life?” Podcast
“My dream is that, as essential workers in this city, we are protected and can live without fear.”
Searching for Solace: “A Better Life?” Podcast
Jasmine Jiwani kneels at her husband’s gravestone at a cemetery in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She never thought—coming to America from East Africa a decade ago—that one day she would have to mourn alone.
Jiwani is part of Atlanta’s large Ismaili Muslim community, which believes in the power of communal prayer to worship and heal. Covid restrictions prevented the community from gathering for the funeral of her husband, who died of Covid.
Two Cities Called Nogales: “A Better Life?” Podcast
Prosperity and Economic Devastation on the US-Mexico Border