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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...

Features & analyses

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...

Culture & events

Leveraging, Learning, and Connecting with LinkedIn

On Friday, June 25, NWNY held a two-part company session with our devoted partner, LinkedIn, helping community members learn how to build their best profile and develop meaningful professional relationships through this essential job search and networking tool Opening NWNY’s second quarterly session with LinkedIn this year, community members shared why this opportunity piqued their interest and what they hoped to gain by participating in this informative yet interactive company session. Meryem Uzumcu, NWNY’s Program Associate for Partnerships, and I...

Features & analyses

An Immigrant Woman’s Opinion: My Native Tongue Does Not Define My Immigrant Identity After All

What it feels like to lose a language – and why I’m not too worried about it. Walk around New York any given day and you’ll be bombarded by advertisements on billboards to buses and everything in between. Given the marketing overload, I don’t often pay attention to these messages. But as I started thinking about what I wanted to write about this past Immigrant Heritage Month (proclaimed a national event by President Biden), a poster I thought I’d only...