Hundreds of drivers flood downtown Richmond, Va. in an attempt to get lawmakers to re-open the state during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 22, 2020.
Steven Huang, a sophomore at George Washington University (GWU), poses for a portrait in his dorm room on Feb. 6, 2020. Huang and other Chinese students at GWU are collecting N95 masks from the D.C. area to donate to the newly built hospital in Wuhan helping combat Coronavirus. "I think most of the international students, Chinese international students, feel that when you’re far from your home country, you have that kind of patriot feeling. And we are the new generation, we are the new century teenagers and we want to take responsibility to help our country and our people. To be doing donations, it’s just a small amount of contribution, but it actually means a lot to our hearts and to the people back home who are suffering from the disease."
Tina Peng, a sophomore at George Washington University, poses for a portrait in an empty Marvin Center, a student support building, in Washington, DC on March 18, 2020. Peng was one of roughly 200 students who were approved for extended housing during campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s a little depressing,” says Peng. “For most international students, we’re so far being away from home. Time difference with our family, we already feel homesick from time to time. Now that a lot of my friends are already home, whether American or international, even though there are some people staying on campus, this moment we shouldn’t be meeting each other that often. We should keep social distance. You really take time alone for yourself but also, it’s spring break and I’m alone.”
