Its an exciting, and fitting, invitation, given that the two young men have become de facto experts on young adulthood in their own right: Last spring, they took off from college to roadtrip across the country, interviewing and photographing people ages 18 to 25 about their experiences during Covid-19. Max Strickberger and Alan Jinich, seniors in Penn Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, drove 7,300 miles across 23 states for six weeks in the spring to interview people ages 18 to 25 . Eight girls, planning to live there until graduation. Generation Pandemic, an online oral history archive by senior English major Max Strickberger and senior English minor Alan Jinich, featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. Wed love if youd be interested in taking some time to speak with us. Strickberger says. Soon they were invited to the high school prom. Nov. 08, 2021. They read several classic texts and recent writings included Studs Terkels Working, first-person interviews with a variety of workers in the 1970s, and Hard Times, first-person accounts of daily life during the Great Depression. We just got into the area. Audiobooks, less so. Throwing your hands in the air, losing yourself in a moment, the music. And Sharon, 22, a Santa Fe, N.M., restaurant worker trying to balance her college studies with helping her family, including her drug-addicted brother and his girlfriend, who had a baby, also born drug addicted. When Penn student Alan Jinich finally decided he couldn't take one more day of sitting inside his rented house taking virtual classes, he came up with quite the solution. The cousins said they would only talk for 10 minutes. He had taken Peisss class, Modern American Culture, and she agreed to collaborate on this project, creating an eight-week syllabus of readings and meeting with them virtually once a week. And then, at the same time, there was the opposite where, because you were a young person, you werent financially secure, and you still relied on your family in a lot of ways. We saw that in Santa Fe in an interview with Sharon who, prior to the pandemic, spent her whole life trying to stay out of her house. In this agreement, you accept communications from partners which may include newsletters, exclusive event invites, discount codes and emails containing other Super Citizen Member perks. And of course theyre going on the roadthey seek actual encounters., Strickberger and Jinich had taken a creative writing course, Extreme Noticing, taught by Apple, who suggested they read Eli Saslows column Voices from the Pandemic in The Washington Post. I just felt like I was wasting something that I previously loved so much, Strickberger said. Just going to the next one, whatever. 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. . Caption: Pati Jinich three sons Julian, Sami, and Alan. AJ: When I was driving, I needed something to keep me awake! READ MORE: Penn receives record $125 million to offer free tuition to nurse practitioners to work in underserved communities, I thought it was a great idea, Egan said of the project, such a creative way of responding to a disruption of the education they were merrily rolling along with. Jinich handled all the photography, much of the writing and editing, and the web-building and design for this ambitious and well-received oral history project, Generation Pandemic, which recently won one of Penns Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grants. And now they gotta learn some shit. Man arrested in 23-year-old cold case for attacking jogger at Penn State Officials announced that DNA from a coffee cup led them to Alan Kurt Rillema. Every new town we were starting fresh, Strickberger said. Five security guards declined to speak with me before I approached Amber at the wrap-around desk in Harrison, a high-rise dorm built in 1970. Meek Mill has a song called Oodles O Noodles Babies. Permit holders will have access to their garage at all times during the Winter Break. That was really meaningful. If you see this in todays newsletter, that means were highlighting our exclusive journalism. What follows is a condensed and edited version of that interview. I get it.. The state-controlled parking authority has had notable financial turbulence in recent months, perhaps the two biggest being: Airport officials taking the power from the PPA over control of its long- and short-term parking, a contract the PPA managed for nearly 50 years, and. MS: I think it also helped to just point out that it was a weird situation. You need to be a subscriber to read these stories. RELATED: New film captures a Philly familys struggle with opioid addiction. I felt so frustrated that I wasnt doing something that was engaging more seriously with what was happening around us. Check out our interactive tool looking at the rising gas prices in our region. We will never give or sell your information to a third party outside of this partner program. Alan Jinich is a junior from Maryland studying Neuroscience and minoring in English. He also balanced creative writing and longform nonfiction classes with his studies in neuroscience including his work at the Cullen Lab at Penn researching brain cell histology and traumatic brain injury. What it means. Took semester off from school to interview young Americans about their lives during the pandemic. Local Coronavirus Numbers: Heres your daily look at the latest COVID-19 data. Contest judge: Rachel Zolf. Jinich opened the trunk to finish packing and some food came pouring out. Was it an omen? Duffin acting university archivist at Penn Archives shared that the project was started in May 2020 as a proactive step to make sure that the Penn community intentionally documents this pandemic better than . Alan did some of the interviews in Spanish, for example, and if it had just been me doing the trip, I wouldve had no access to those. Robyn, Ronni, Deborah, Amy, and I all occupy a small square of my computer screen. They pledge to get a drink soon in Manhattan. Miller said she and her husband, a cardiologist, were not supportive of the idea at first. What we know, California residents do not sell my data request. We worked with a history professor from Penn, Kathy Peiss; just out of the kindness of her heart, shes very generous and met with us outside of school. A PPA spokesperson said general counsel Dennis Weldon will assume the responsibilities of executive director while the board announced plans to launch a national search for Petris replacement. Hey everyone! Before coming to Penn, where he received a Provosts teaching award in 2005, Hendrickson worked as a staff feature writer at The Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. Get our newsletter, The Daily . A third responded with just two words: Breathe again.. A jar of marmalade was lost. Although we did hope that we would create some type of archive. Once she got out of quarantine, everyone kept at a distance until the sheriff hugged her.. After that, everything was more spontaneous and challenging. Her job went remote, she realized I can take my entire life and move somewhere else. They were really just very open-ended conversations. But it also just feels like the start of a study on our generation. Price is subject to change with prior notification. Pati is fond of her sons and has an endearing way of calling . So that was kind of the opposite of movement, it was really constrictive. Wed go to the grocery store and we had a cooler in the back: It was almost all cheese and bread. School of Arts & SciencesUniversity of Pennsylvania3600 Market Street, Suite 300Philadelphia, PA 19104-3284Phone: 215-746-1232Fax: 215-573-2096Email: omnia-penn@sas.upenn.edu, 2023 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences, Seven Things to Know About "The Waste Land" at 100, Celebrating the Pastand Planning for the Future. MS: One big theme that came out of it for us was about movement. They even invited us for dinner. Most of my junior year was spent wandering from bedroom to bedroom, each its own ecosystem. (LR) Green Monsters donning their custom-made Spring Fling apparel. And I think people felt some degree of freedom in being young, and they recognized from an empathetic perspective that not everyone has this and were really lucky that we do. He folds fake IDs like cardboard and the line moves on. It was my first time doing a really long-term creative project. We ended up going the more broad route. Reading the testimonies you immediately see the array, the range of people that theyve been able to meet, and how Max and Alan have allowed them to tell their own stories, which I really, really admire.. We knew when we started the road trip that we wanted to do these interviews and just talk to people our age. Sign up for our newsletter. 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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. So theyre definitely extremes in both ways. The resulting website for that archive, Generation Pandemic, will feature about 20, 1,500-word, oral history narratives and podcasts drawn from the interviews, photos, and videos they gathered on their journey. But he still expressed so much gratitude for not being in the place that a lot of older folks were. Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, on the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Having taken approximately one human development class more than two decades ago, I only know about Arnett, and his (oft-refuted) research, because Im on a video call with Penn seniors Alan Jinich and Max Strickbergerand, mid-call, they receive an email from a Penn professor asking them to talk to a class about this very subject. As a young Black girl, there is like a certain culture. Mullins took a deep dive into the life and teaching career of Richard Polman, Maury Povich Writer in Residence in the Center for Creative Writing at Penn, whose class Mullins had earlier taken, and who is responsible for Mullinss pivot toward a possible career in journalism. She spoke with us about being treated like a pariah, about how rumors were spreading about her family and herself in this small town, Strickberger says. The archive explores how the pandemic has . Senior Max Strickberger, co-creator of Generation Pandemic. Before coming to Penn, where he received a Provost's teaching award in 2005, Hendrickson worked as a staff feature writer at The Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. And Im really grateful to have that archive. I wanted to do something. The fields flooded again in May of 2020, but those baseball and softball seasons had been canceled due to . I ask Amber if shes ever left Philly. Theres many commonalities, but mostly differences. And he put the entire website together, which is so meaningful, to have what we did in one place. In chicken-scratch handwriting, he has written Scroll at the top of the folder, followed by Birth certificate, then Social underlined. I mean, Phil-a-del-ph-ia, the City of Brotherly Love, the Independence Hall, the bookthe textbook Philly, sure. We used that to inform a long list of potential stops that we could hit.. Jinich and Strickbergerchildhood friends who grew up on the same block in Chevy Chase, MDsat down at their shared apartment in West Philly to talk about the experiences of young people during the pandemic, how rejection has made them stronger, and their go-to roadtrip snacks. Our reporters Max Marin and William Bender deliver more on what could have persuaded the PPA board to give Petri the boot. Do you think Penn feels like Philly? I ask. Then came another place, another challenge. Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South St. Also, we want your reactions to last nights Sixers game and the return of Ben Simmons. Confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann reflects on nearly 18 years as Penns president, Penn receives record $125 million to offer free tuition to nurse practitioners to work in underserved communities, California residents do not sell my data request. They want to revisit people they interviewed and look for new subjects in other towns and cities. Our reporter Susan Snyder takes a look at their travels, the stories that arrived, and the Penn community that rallied to help them. It makes them morally and ethically accountable to their subjectsthat is, they are not just swinging by for one or two interviews, but they are building up a relationship built on trust: their trust of the subject, the subjects trust of them. From midnight to 8am she pays bills, watches movies, writes goals, manifestations, to-dos, lists of people she would invite to her future wedding and people she would break money to if she ever won the lottery. At the end of each interview, they asked everyone to write in a notebook a response to the prompt, after the pandemic, I want to.. Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. As in a dream, I feel that hes taken my place. What are we doing? Strickberger thought. One of their next stops was Greensboro, a small city in Alabama. Im sure if I was approached by two strangers in the middle of the workday, Id think it was pretty weird as well. Jinich grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. By the end of the trip we were walking into 30 businesses getting rejected by all of them. There was so much happening in the world, and were sitting in our apartment in Philly.. Enlisting his friend and roommate, disillusioned Penn English major Max Strickberger, the two took off their spring semester, loaded up Jinich's mom's SUV with food and . And that wasnt just like a class piece; it was very much an age-related commentary on whats going on now. I think what theyre doing is inspiring.. Stein and Jinichs classmates included Margaret Arfaa, C24; Makena Deveraux, C23; and Zachary Mullins, C24. Anya Miller, Juxtaposition I. Savannah Naib, untitled. We saw young people being in a place where they could get up and move entirely. I just felt like I was wasting something that I previously loved so much, Strickberger said. The first week was loosely planned, and the rest unfolded as they went along. They interviewed Makayla, a 23-year-old single mom who lamented the difficulty of working with no raise for several years in a store where mask rules werent enforced. So when they come outside they just wanna let go of all that. Arfaa, whose grandfather was once highly connected at Annenberg, used storytelling to create a portrait of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Contact. JBP: Speaking of empathy, how did you win people over to be vulnerable and trusting with you twowhat was that process like for you? They took COVID-19 tests to protect others, especially when they visited Navajo Nation, which was particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Alan is a multimedia journalist based in Philadelphia. J.M. Although I feel like maybe I was in control? Carrots and hummus. The schools performing arts program includes theater, dance, and music. Applauding: Abbott Elementary, the hit ABC comedy created by West Philly native Quinta Brunson, is delivering real-life resources to her old elementary school. Schools and centers across campus will offer special opportunities to engage with activities and programs geared toward kids ages 9-15. In the more immediate future, Jinich and Strickberger already have summer plans. Except then Alan got the interview with Fernando, which is up on the site. And check out their powerful, sweet and hilarious mix of post-pandemic wishes. David cant wrap his head around this. At the same time, Ill recognize that we could only access certain stories. JBP: What was your sustenance on the road? By the end of it, Tyler and Jay introduced us to their whole family.. Were going to hit the road again, Jinich said. [Hendrickson] has a rare gift for finding beauty and significance in everything. 2400 Market Street Offsite Suite 269 Philadelphia, PA 19103. The fourth-year do-it-all guard on the womens basketball team is in the final stages of her sensational career at Penn. The 23-year-old bouncer of the West & Down nightclub is vigilant and assertive. Amber sits behind the front desk in Harrison. We are excited to share the press release below: Jinich is a Penn Senior majoring in Neuroscience and English, who worked in a variety of labs as well as in several editorial settings, as writer, photographer and designer at Penn Appetit and as a production assistant and photographer for the James Beard-award-winning PBS show Patis Mexican Table. In 2021, he and a classmate took a leave from Penn to spend six months driving cross-country, interviewing more than 80 young adults in cities large and small, and creating the fascinating online Generation Pandemic Project, a portion of which was recently published in the Washington Post, and featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and on NPRs Radio Times and Smart Talk. The room is exactly as I remembered, except now its filled with Canadian sports memorabilia, posters, and hats. However, Miller said it didnt take long for her son and Jinich to change her mind. As much as I believe in and love the written form, Alan has extraordinary photos that I can go through and think back to the experience and thats so nice, thats such an archive. Maybe there is a way to combine it with neuroscience, he said. For the student to come to terms with this in a long-form project pays dividends they dont even realize at the time.. But I know well be back standing on this deck one day, me and Sam. During the summer they edited the narratives and photos, working with Penn alum Daniel Fradin to build their website. In high school, I started a culture and identity magazine that was predicated on personal storytelling. Sam lying in bed surrounded by her collected and carefully-sourced antiquities. The flooding was so severe that Secchia Stadium's infield and outfield had to be replaced. AJ: Its been really hard for us to come up with big take-aways for this project because the stories were just so different. Her brother was addicted to heroin and her mother, who did not speak English, was trying to navigate the court system for custody of the baby. In 2021, he took a leave from Penn, during which he worked on the PBS primetime docu-series La Frontera as a photographer, and began driving across the country with his roommate, writer Max Strickberger, to interview young people about how they felt about the pandemic and the future. Alan Jinich: We didnt really know how the project was going to take shape. Winner: Knar . We moved into the Monster in August 2020, height of the pandemic. What becomes quickly apparent in his class is that there is no difference between writing well and living well.. Sriracha. AJ: People were really grateful. The Peregrine Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Patience and perseverance combined with chance and a little luck as they stopped in Circleville, Utah. If I could get the support, Id totally just keep going. The athletics program offers competitive sports for student athletes, including cross-country, track, soccer, lacrosse, and crew/rowing. I study neuroscience and Ive been undecided as to what I want to do after school, and now Im considering work that involves writing and interviews., The same is true for Strickberger. As Ive grown older, I started to realize that not everybody has those opportunities to be able to process what theyve gone through and then release it. Maeve upstairs with a canvas photograph of planet Earth larger than her modest, sparsely decorated room. JBP: So are weand history will undoubtedly thank you someday, too. It probably was more worthwhile dont tell Penn than a semester online, said Deborah Miller, Strickbergers mother, a former television producer. It has been ten or eleven years since a Green Monster pledge wrote out the Monster commandments on a piece of paper and dubbed it The Scroll, but Charlie still knows where that slip of paper is at all times. And Im proud of what they've been able to achieve, he says. His crossover of NBA legend Michael Jordan. Five security guards declined to speak with me before I approached Amber at the wrap-around desk in Harrison, a high-rise dorm built in 1970. RELATED: 10-year Philly project explores the power of empathetic listening. To me it was a kind of classic American story of going on the road and learning about your country. And Julius, who moved from Wisconsin to a town in Santa Fe. Alan will receive a full Nora Prize award of $4000 and mentorship from a large web of Penn alums in the media and their colleagues. Through the daughter, you glimpse the mother. I had no idea that I would love interviewing people so much. October 19, 2021; . They used an app, called Social Explorer, to chart a route with socioeconomic and ethnic diversity. Nasir poses in front of the West & Down nightclub, where he used to be a bouncer. We strive to bring you faculty, staff, Thats when they began to plot something they found much more meaningful a journey across America, from rural towns to cities, from the deep South to the Midwest, to interview a diverse group, mostly ages 18 to 25, on how the pandemic had impacted their lives. And loud music would keep me awake. Penn Students Travel Cross-Country to Collect Pandemic Stories. So I started speaking to him in Spanish and we just bonded as Mexicans. Faculty and staff are eligible. There are times where I look good and I feel good. JBP: What overarching insights have you each taken away from the experience, and how has this journey changed you? Strickberger is an English major with a concentration in creative writing and Jinich a neuroscience major and English minor. We stand outside on the Monsters deck and people-watch hordes of kids darting around to various pre-games, many clutching bottles of cheap champagne. It was a little bit of persistence, a little bit of luck. The prom was one of dozens of unexpected experiences shared by seniors Max Strickberger and Alan Jinichbest friends and Penn roommates who grew up on the same street in Chevy Chase, Marylandduring their journalistic endeavor. GDS alum Alan Jinich '17 has won the 2022 Nora Magid Mentorship Prize along with Penn classmate Beatrice Forman. Four programs in the Universitys academic community are celebrating anniversaries. Charlie Oshinsky is the keeper of The Scroll. Ben Simmons return to the Wells Fargo Center overshadowed the anniversary of when Sixer Allen Iverson did this and put his game on the NBA map. Id never done a project that had this kind of depth and kind of length to it. We asked ourselves: Why are we not thinking more about what that means? Awarded to the best original poetry by a graduate student. If youve read The Secret History by Donna Tartt or watched Dead Poets Society, Id say its a bit like that. I was way more anxious about it. The Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. Penn Park Parking Lot, 3100 Lower Walnut St. AJ: It got me so excited to do more of this stuff. Penn, in partnership with TreePhilly, will be distributing trees to promote increased tree planting in urban areas. We wanted to do that kind of oral history with personal narratives, but specific to our age and about the pandemic, Strickberger says. As with any personal archive, theres always a multiplicity of lives that leave a trace, Cloutier says. They were willing to super put everything on pause and take a leave of absence, which I think was gutsy, said Jinich, a chef. Kerith Gabriel (@sprtswtr, morningnewsletter@inquirer.com). Take a guess and find The Answer here. But during the pandemic, she had to be home, and home for her meant a really tight trailer. I can tell you immediately how the pandemic affected people my age, but I think the more interesting take-aways will come when we have time to process it and also when we see the changes that happened with the people we interviewed. Last year they drove 7,300 miles across 23 states for six weeks, interviewing people ages 18 to 25 about their experiences during the pandemic. By the end of the day, we had gotten rejected from every single business in Chinatown. Thats what I have for you this week. It was really energizing to be out there and trying to find someone who was generous enough to share a part of their life with us., As they settle into their senior year at Penn, they are continuing work on the Generation Pandemic archive. He spent his gap year studying Jewish Diaspora and Middle Eastern History. Our comprehensive, progressive curriculum is known for experiential andhands-on learning, college-prep level math and STEM courses, and innovative programming. As you can see by the room, Im a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan. Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History in the School of Arts & Sciences. Speak Papas truth, scribed another, who lost her grandfather to suicide during the pandemic. MS: For some reason, every time we turned on the car, the same song [the hypnotic Tubesocks] on Alans phone would play automatically. It reframed the way I interact with people back at school.. During the spring of 2021, Alan Jinich and Max Strickberger conducted over 80 interviews with 18-25 year olds, meeting people across 16 states and . Philosophizing with a club bouncer, comparing wall decorations with the woman who occupied the same campus housing space 35 years priorthese are just a few of the epiphanic moments that grew out of Paul Hendricksons Advanced Writing Projects in Long-Form Nonfiction course. The scrutiny that arrived from the PPAs request of an $11.3 million refund from the cash-strapped school district in 2020, citing an overpayment that launched a City Council probe into the agencys finances. In Circleville, Utah, they faced two particularly skeptical subjects who were cousins. Theres a certain culture with being raised here. But they didnt want to be interviewed. Penn After Midnight By Alan Jinich, C'22. AJ: A lot of cheese sandwiches for Max. Theres even a TV. So for her, the pandemic meant the opposite of movement, and it meant she had to be home, and home didnt feel safe. Nasir says, straighten up, and they straighten up. And, Scott Petri, the executive director of the PPA, has abruptly been removed from his role effective today amid a turbulent time for the citys parking authority. The African American MBA Association at the Wharton School celebrates its 50th anniversary. I see some tendrils of Kerouac and the Beat Generation in Max and Alans project, Cloutier says. Early on they decided not to seek out interviews with people who were full-time college students like themselves, and instead looked for people who represented other experiences. The pandemic exacerbated that reality for her. GENERATION PANDEMIC Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. Strickberger and Jinich traveled across the country and compiled . 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