Hasini Shyamsundar is a rising senior studying Regional and Comparative Studies with an emphasis on postcolonial identity in Latin America and South Asia. Hasini serves the Society & Culture section editor of the peer-reviewed Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She has a passion for interfaith work and serves as a student worker on Georgetown Campus Ministry's interreligious team and as the programming chair of Women in Faith. Hasini is currently following shelter-in-place guidelines in Santa Clara County.

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About my collection

My collection titled "Art and Humor During a Pandemic" focuses on how artists utilize humor to cope with the challenges caused by COVID-19. The artists featured⁠—Huda Fahmy, Sailesh Gopalan, and Lela Lee⁠—come from different backgrounds, but each processed the COVID-19 outbreak through a similar use of humor. One can see a visible departure from these artist's pre-pandemic content and the content they produced from March to May. Ultimately, the work of these artists helped me process the changes caused by the pandemic as well.

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Also check out articles related to the pandemic which I've chosen to archive here.