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Features & analyses

We Speak We LEAD, an opportunity for everything you are looking for! We Speak We LEAD, una oportunidad para todo lo que buscas!

Daniella, our WSWL Outreach & Special Events Assistant and LEAD Alumna, shares with us more about her experience (in Spanish and English) supporting our Spring 2022 We Speak We LEAD series, held in partnership with the We Speak NYC team of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. ENGLISH What is it like to be a woman who arrives or lives in New York in search of new opportunities? I am a professional, but I do not speak English fluently....

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3 steps for getting ready for a job interview

Worried about this important step in the job search process? Fear not! With strategy and the right mindset, you’ll learn the skills to succeed There are thousands of tips on how to make your job search more successful. However, they all boil down to “Do your homework”, i.e. prepare for every step of the  interviewing process. If you are a foreign specialist and an English learner, you may have more “homework” – so much more that you don’t know where...

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5 questions (and answers) about cooperatives and how immigrant women may benefit from them

These worker-owned enterprises empower members to form their own businesses and to take collective control over decisions. For immigrant women, they are a pathway to job opportunities, income, and fulfillment. October is National Women’s Small Business Month – it’s time to celebrate women-owned businesses. Cooperatives are an important part of this ecosystem, allowing members to organize themselves in shared interests and goals as well as to form their own businesses. The cooperative model empowers workers in low-wage industries, including cleaning...

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COVID-19: a year of women, in particular non-white women, falling behind

Over a year of lockdowns, quarantining, covid testing, and hospitalizations in New York City, women have beared the brunt of the pandemic The year of 2020 will perhaps forever be, or at least feels as though it will be, tainted by lockdowns, quarantining, covid testing, and feelings of despair. All of these, in most, if not all, parts of the world, have followed us right into 2021. No one would deny that most individuals on the planet have been impacted...