Category: Portraits & interviews
We are excited to invite you to our year-end event, Finding a Job in America – A Night of Comedy and Horror by Immigrant Women, which will take place on Wednesday, December 4 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at LMHQ in Lower Manhattan. Join us to celebrate one more year serving immigrant women in New York City! The event will feature performances and stories by our LEAD graduates and participants, about their experience of the job search. It promises to be a fun and inspiring evening! Get your ticket here, before...
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....
Meet Vesna, the editor behind our blog and a newsletter that selects works by immigrants and children of immigrants who write about identity, belonging and multicultural life Volunteers are the driving force of our workforce development, community building, and storytelling programs serving immigrant women in New York City. They lead, manage, and operate all key programs and activities of the organization, and are an integral part of New Women New Yorkers’ cross-community vision. This week, we would like to introduce...
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America supports New Women New Yorkers’ LEAD workforce development program and capacity building, volunteer initiatives, and two events in 2019. Read an interview by Guardian Life of Laila Garroni, one of New Women New Yorkers’ recent storytelling graduates. Repost from original article, available here: https://www.guardianlife.com/brazil-big-apple From Brazil to the Big Apple How one woman reinvented herself fearlessly. From the outside looking in, it appeared that Laila Garroni had it all—the best apartment, the best...
