Like many native New Yorkers living abroad, Tunisia-based art dealer and creative consultant Katherine Li Johnson has been anxiously watching the rise of COVID-19 cases in her hometown from afar. The stream of messages flooding her inbox from medical-worker friends in the worst-hit areas of the city—including Queens, where she was born and raised, and the Bronx, where her brother’s girlfriend works as a physician’s assistant at the Montefiore hospital—has been particularly upsetting.
“We were all just like, ‘How can we all make this happen?’” says Johnson of the group, which includes members from a diverse range of creative backgrounds, from industrial designers to virtual-reality developers.on Instagram using PayPal and Venmo on April 2, quickly raising more than $5,000 in less than 20 hours. The prototype shields they produced as a result were then approved by an acquaintance in procurement at Montefiore Hospital.
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