New Women New Yorkers

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Culture & events

An inspiring evening with 4 accomplished women immigrants

Written by Netsanet Tekeda Alemu To mark the completion of two spring series of the LEAD program and the graduation of 18 young women immigrants from the program, New Women New Yorkers held a roundtable discussion at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library (NYPL) on May 3. The panel consisted of four inspiring and successful immigrant women. Arielle Kandel, founder and director of NWNY, welcomed the panelists and participants, and thanked NYPL for their generosity and continued support of the...

Culture & events

An immigrant’s guide to making friends in New York

Written by Edil Cuepo Even for an extrovert like myself, moving to a new place initially meant having zero friends, zero confidence, and zero fun. Back home in Manila, my friends had been my security blanket since I was a child. No matter what happened in my life I always knew I had them. It was not until I moved thousands of miles away from them that I experienced having no sense of community — other than my family —...

Portraits & interviews

Meet the talented, passionate, and fearless members of our team!

Written by Abbey Kurtz New Women New Yorkers is on the path to success not only because of our strong mission and vision, but because driving our work are dedicated, passionate, and fearless volunteers. Unique and diverse, each NWNY volunteer staff member is motivated by personal migration stories, connections to immigrant communities in NYC or generations of refugee family members, and a deep commitment to women’s issues and equality. As the Volunteer Coordinator, I am so proud to introduce this...

Culture & events

How 9 New Women New Yorkers from 3 continents spent Christmas Eve

        Abbey From Long Island, New York; great-granddaughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland and Lithuania) Where I was on Christmas Eve: Astoria, NY What I did: Played hide and seek with my cat… and celebrated the end of Hanukah         Arielle From Paris, France; granddaughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe (Poland and Germany) Where I was on Christmas Eve: Paris, France What I did: Celebrated last day of Hanukah, before having a...