Stories of COVID-19: On the Job
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, we begin sharing Stories of COVID-19 once again, starting with stories about the ways COVID-19 has impacted our working lives.
Part 1: When a bug gets stuck in her ear while she’s in the field tagging alligators, Laura Kojima isn’t sure how to get it out without putting herself and her work at risk due to COVID-19.
Part 2: When she finds herself unemployed at the start of the pandemic, Shashi Mostafa takes a job working in a factory that produces medical equipment.
Laura Kojima is a graduate student with the University of Georgia looking at the consumption risk associated with alligator movement off of the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, a former nuclear reactor plant that has reservoirs that are occupied by alligators that is connected to a river where public hunting occurs.
Shashi Mostafa is a conceptual artist who makes fictional narratives that humanize the overlooked. As a director, screenwriter and photographer, her goal is to instigate social change with her films and photo series. Exploring the dark parts of humanity, she creates pieces that brew empathy, challenge oppression, and project power. In addition, she is a social media content creator and host for Waste-Ed, a sustainability channel, and In the Now, a kindness and social justice channel. Both exist across various online platforms, but she mainly makes videos for TikTok and Instagram.
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| 0:43.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Story Collider's Stories of COVID-19. |
| 0:48.7 | Starting this week, Story Collider will be airing a new series of five episodes featuring stories of the ways the pandemic has affected our lives. |
| 0:52.9 | It's been an honor to document these stories, which are sometimes |
| 0:57.4 | raw and emotional, sometimes whimsical and silly, sometimes complex and thought-provoking. |
| 1:04.5 | After this series, we're going to continue working with storytellers to document this period in time, |
| 1:09.2 | but we will be focusing on other subjects as well. |
| 1:12.4 | Now we're in the process of producing an upcoming series called Human Nature, which will feature |
| 1:17.7 | stories that reflect on the ways we're shaped by the natural world around us, so that's stories |
| 1:22.7 | about conservation, about climate change and field work, wildlife and plant life, and natural disasters. |
| 1:28.3 | We're really excited about this series. If you'd like to be a part of it, please do send us your story pitch at Stories at |
| 1:35.3 | Storyclider.org. In the meantime, we're delighted to share more stories of COVID-19 with you. |
| 1:42.3 | In today's episode, we look at how the pandemic has affected our work lives. |
| 1:48.0 | Our first story is from graduate student Laura Kojima. |
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