Contact tracing proved an invaluable tool during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in many US states to help curtail the virus’s spread and inform those potentially exposed. However, many of these efforts did not consider how information gathering can also be an opportunity for information sharing. Alex Sanchez, Theo Loftis, Jenny Lee, Amelia Mauldin, Andrea Ngan, Bo Guang, and Jessa Lingel, through interviews with tracers and tracees in Philadelphia and Providence, examine the dynamics present when people are contacted about their health information and suggest interventions for the problems encountered.
Feini Yin
Feini Yin is a multimedia journalist, organizer, and community fishmonger living on Lenape land currently known as Philadelphia. Yin works at the intersection of science and social justice, with the goal of supporting people in having power, knowledge, and access to choices when it comes to their food, environment, health, and wellbeing. They are the program administrator for Fishadelphia, a student-run, community-supported fishery in Philadelphia. They also organize with Creative Resilience Collective, a mental health justice group, and Free Radicals, an activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, accountable, and liberatory science through political education, community-led research, and grassroots organizing. In their free time, Yin enjoys fishing, cooking, reading, and spending time in nature with their dog and loved ones.