Category: Portraits & interviews
Written by Kara DeDonato In honor of International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8 every year, the March news digest focuses on women immigrants in the US before turning to local immigration news here in New York. Women immigrants in the US On March 20, the Migration Policy Institute published a ‘Spotlight’ report, entitled “Immigrant Women in the United States.” The report notes that the number of women immigrants in the United States has steadily increased over the past...
Interview conducted and written by Jahaida Hernandez Jesurum On a cold April morning in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I meet with Hsuan-Yu Pan. She opens the door with a warm, charismatic smile that seems to be a permanent feature of her face. We take the elevator to the apartment of one of her friends in the basement where, she explains, she is working on a film segment for BRIC, a Brooklyn-based art and media nonprofit. We are welcomed into the...
Written by Kara DeDonato This month’s news digest provides an update on the child migrant crisis before turning to the blocked executive action and immigration news closer to home in New York. A brief update on the child migrant crisis In February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned that many of the children who are picked up by immigration officials in the US and Mexico might face persecution by local street gangs, known as ‘maras’, if...
New Women New Yorkers, a Startup Nonprofit Empowering Young Women Immigrants in New York City, Celebrates the Launch of its First Program February 2015 (New York, NY) – We are happy and excited to announce our Launch Party to introduce and celebrate the beginning of LEAD, a unique 3-month skills training and leadership development program for young women immigrants between the ages of 16 and 24. We are partnering with Atlas: DIY, a cooperative empowerment center for undocumented youth, to...
Career Access & Economic Mobility
Freedom to Choose One’s Path
