New Women New Yorkers

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Culture & events

NWNY visits Google — and we’re hiring!

New Women New Yorkers kicked off Immigrant Heritage Month with an incredible evening at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, with The Moth and a group of 11 young women immigrants, storytellers for the night. For the very first time, these young immigrant women shared their stories with family and friends, and made us cry, laugh, and feel inspired and energized. Keep an eye out for our upcoming storytelling performance open to the public in July — we’ll be sharing...

NYC neighborhoods

Neighborhood history: Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Written by Isabel Kaufman The ride to meet my friends in Sunset Park is quiet: past the warehouses, past the water, to the orderly residential streets. History is repeating: Sunset Park has long been characterized by the comings and goings of its population, and its soul determined by immigrant populations that have lived there. This is still true. Today, people come and go from Sunset Park to visit the namesake park and try out ethnic restaurants in Brooklyn’s Chinatown (along...

Culture & events

Presenting our LEAD Program for young women immigrants!

We’re very excited to launch in February our very first program for young women immigrants, the LEAD Program, in partnership with Atlas: DIY!  IMPORTANT: We’re starting the 1st session of the LEAD Program on February 18! Workshops will take place every Wednesday from 4:30pm to 7pm through May.     The LEAD Program run in partnership with Atlas: DIY is a 3-month skills training and leadership development program for young women immigrants between the ages of 16 and 24. Workshops of 3 hours...