New Women New Yorkers

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Culture & events

How to get involved with New Women New Yorkers in 2017

If you’ve ever considered volunteering for an organization you care about, there’s no better time than right now. New Women New Yorkers has a number of great ways to volunteer your time and your skills in the coming year. From joining the team as a regular volunteer to sharing your shutterbug talents, here are five ways to get involved: . First and second generation immigrants: share your favorite recipe for our cookbook — it could be featured on our blog! Make a 2-minute...

Features & analyses / Portraits & interviews

6 can’t-miss NWNY blog posts from 2016

Written by Anna Archibald   Though 2016 — a humdinger of a year for many people — is now happily in the past, New Women New Yorkers can’t help but take a look back at the many successes of the past 12 months. The organization saw 45 young immigrant women graduate from its LEAD program and hosted its first ever photo exhibit, Real People. Real Lives. Women Immigrants of New York, in which young women immigrants shared their experiences as...

Portraits & interviews

Iraqi author Nadia Al Sultani talks about her path to self discovery

Written by Jahaida Hernández Jesurum Most of the time, children have no say over choices that are made for them — and immigrant children are not exempt from this. Kids must rely on the fact that their parents are making the best decisions for them based on their best judgement. And in most cases they do. This was the case of author Nadia Al Sultani’s mother, who decided to leave a prewar Iraq in 1980, when Al Sultani was 10...