Asylee Women Enterprise, Interview #2

Title
Asylee Women Enterprise, Interview #2
Description
Tiffany Nelms from the Asylee Women Enterprise talks about the ways in which their organization is adapting to COVID and continuing to provide a safe and supportive environment for their community. She also discusses the dramatic toll that the pandemic has taken on the refugee community.
Table Of Contents
00:01:20 Community Building; mental health and well being
00:4:00 Celebrating and finding joy; finding community
00:07:56 Community building; survival and tools from previous experiences
00:10:50 Honoring the dead; healing and mourning; survival and tools from previous experiences
00:13:48 Mental health and wellness; survival and tools from previous experiences; community
00:20:21 Government response to coronavirus
00:23:47: Assessment of relief work; government response to coronavirus
Transcript
Date Created
August 18, 2020
Interviewer
Iman AbdoulKarim
Fatima Bamba
Kayla Wheeler (advisor)
Interviewee
Tiffany Nelms
Community
Asylee Women Enterprise
State
Maryland
Place
Baltimore
Genre
Oral history
Subject
Survival
Government response
Community building
Mental health
COVID
Virtual community
Language
English