Here are the books our team loves or is excited to read this season Summer is officially here. It’s time to go outdoors – preferably with a pile of books (or a tablet). We asked our staff and our team of volunteers for summer reading suggestions about the immigrant experience. Our selection is as diverse as our community and includes just released titles and a couple of older favorites. The list has fiction and nonfiction — novels, memoirs, poetry, cookbooks,...
New Women New Yorkers wishes you a happy holiday weekend! Celebrate immigrants on July 4th by supporting our work and ensuring that NYC continues to be a welcoming place for newcomers. Latest news Workforce development programs This month, we took a group of 22 LEAD participants to the NYC offices of LinkedIn for our quarterly field visit, which included a workshop on how to use LinkedIn for job search and networking, coaching by a LinkedIn employee, and a tour of their offices...
“I am going to take you for a journey to a very remote area in Pakistan,” educator Safida said before describing the wildlife and landscape of the village she was born in. There, she got married at the young age of 11. Girls’ education wasn’t culturally accepted and she had access to schools intermittently. But Safida eventually earned a master’s degree and became the first female school principal in Northern Pakistan. “I went through a lot, but here I am,...
Immigrant Report, an online publication dedicated to the stories of immigrants, is launching a fundraising campaign to keep amplifying the voice of authors like Ratna Goradia, an Indian fiction writer who lives in Southern California. Read her short story The Tumeric is Gone and find out more about the crowdfunding in the video below: The Tumeric is Gone My mother always says, “before god, comes food” which is to say you cannot do anything worthwhile on an empty stomach. Food...