Category: Portraits & interviews
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...
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Real People. Real Lives, a NWNY photo exhibit on immigrant women, we are looking back to some of the participants’ stories. The exhibit featured photographs of 16 women in iconic NYC spots and neighborhoods by Dru Blumensheid. The portraits, along with audio recorded interviews, show a nuanced and multi-layered picture of the immigrant women who make NYC their home, the barriers and isolation they experience, as well the hopes, dreams and talents they bring with them....
The Caribbean-American filmmaker discusses how her immigrant identity in America has shaped her creative work. Written by Alexandra Harris Sontenish Myers is a Caribbean-American filmmaker whose work grapples with racial identity, womanhood, power dynamics, and the heroic journey. Her most recent short film, Cross My Heart, tells the story of an American teenager girl who visits her family in Jamaica and discovers a secret that changes the way she sees the people she loves. She then faces the decision of...
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Real People. Real Lives, a NWNY photo exhibit on immigrant women, we are looking back to some of the participants’ stories. The exhibit featured photographs of 16 women in iconic NYC spots and neighborhoods by Dru Blumensheid. The portraits, along with audio recorded interviews, show a nuanced and multi-layered picture of the immigrant women who make NYC their home, the barriers and isolation they experience, as well the hopes, dreams and talents they bring with...
