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“Missing Them” THE CITY NY: Winner, Online Journalism Awards 2021 Knight Award for Public Service,

I interviewed surviving family members, conducted background research and wrote memorials for “Missing Them,” an engagement journalism initiative by THE CITY NY to write a memorial for every New Yorker lost to COVID-19. This project is deeply meaningful to me, both because it is the kind of service journalism that drove me to go to journalism school during a pandemic, and also exemplifies the kind of work that is possible when civic projects are done in collaboration with the public. Several of my memorials were featured in public art displays by Photoville and adapted into a live theater piece by the Working Theater.

Juan Andres Ollarvide

Gary Jaeger memorial

Ok J. Choi memorial