In the first session, Lia Warner shares how she had to adjust to learning online and quickly adapt her living situation after New York University evicted all students from the dorms. Other topics that she discusses activities during social distancing, canceled travel plans, mutual aid and tenant activism, and personal protective equipment. Warner also shares her experience with anti-Asian racism du ring the pandemic and her thoughts on the future.
In the second session, Lia Warner provides updates on her living situation, studies, and COVID-19 situation. She describes her unexpected travel to Korea with her boyfriend, her experience with the Black Lives Matter protests, and her relationship to New York
College students; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Dormitories; Black lives matter movement; Social distancing (Public health) and education; United States Politics and government 21st century; United States Race relations 21st century; Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.); Korea (South); Warner, Lia; New York University
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
57 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lia Warner was born in China, adopted, and spent her youth in Virginia. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Warner moved to StuyTown in Manhattan. She was in her junior year at New York University where she was studying labor history and Chinese hi story
Note
Interviewed by Denise Milstein on April 14 and September 21, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Lia Warner, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023