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 —...
Written by Jahaida Hernández Jesurum On February 9, New Women New Yorkers held its second Meetup — the first of 2016 — focused on an important skill: networking. Immigrant women from every corner of the world attended the event. Some new faces and others already familiar to the organization gathered to take part in exercises to learn and practice how to approach and connect with people at events and become expert networkers, and to share their experiences in the New...
Written by Sabrina Axster This is the fourth and final installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first, second and third installments. Today, there are only 18,657 German-born residents in NYC, according to a 2013 report on foreign-born populations in NYC published by the Department of City Planning. The report tracks the number of foreign-born residents in NYC since the 1970s. These numbers are remarkably low in comparison to previous numbers and given that the overall population of...
Written by Anna Archibald The past year has been one for the books at New Women New Yorkers. Aside from successful first, second, third, and fourth runs of the LEAD Program, which provides professional training and support for young women immigrants in NYC, as well as a variety of other accomplishments, we’ve built an impressive team of bloggers — the majority of whom are young women immigrants themselves. In 2015, they wrote stories encompassing myriad issues surrounding women in...