Listen to Black American Ginny share about living and working in Shanghai, China during the Covid-19 pandemic. She identifies as Black, African American, and Caribbean American. Her mother’s family is from Jamaica, which is how we’re related. We’re cousins and we met when I was living in Shanghai in 2014. Her father’s side is from North Carolina and Virginia, which is her namesake.

“Well, it's an interesting time that we're talking, Sonja, because of the way China has approached and treated the pandemic for the citizens and the people living in this country and I feel like I'm going through a reset.. In 2020 when Covid was first recognized in Wuhan, China there was a lot of panic, of course, because people didn’t understand much about the virus…”

“…So from June of 2020 until…this a month of April and until February, I  ...