New Women New Yorkers

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Portraits & interviews

NWNY July news: Get involved to support immigrant women, latest news, featured blog post

I am very excited to share with you two opportunities to get involved with New Women New Yorkers and support our work with immigrant women: One-time opportunity: We’re looking for professionals from a wide range of industries to volunteer on August 14 at our Job Search Practice & Networking event. Long-term opportunity: We’re seeking new Board Directors to join our Fundraising and Program committees. See more information below.  And if you’re unable to get involved this time, keep reading so that...

Culture & events

Highlights from our Summer Art Fest event

Written by Lumi Zogaj. Photos by Constanza Prieto.  For Thahitun Mariam, immigration means learning to exist in multiple places. Originally from Bangladesh, she feels at home both there and in her adopted home of New York City. As for Kweighbaye Kotee, who fled the Liberian civil war with her family and now lives in Brooklyn, she still has “an inner yearning to connect to home in Liberia.” Both women were speaking at a roundtable discussion held during Summer Art Fest,...

Portraits & interviews

How to learn English in NYC

By Daria Kurdyukova-Pillot Moving to another country is a real challenge. Sometimes you don’t even know how to speak the new language, or how to learn it faster. It has happened to me twice in my life. Firstly, I moved from Russia to France, and then to London a few years after that. Now I am living in NYC. London is a beautiful city with a lot of green parks, different people, traditions, and culture. I liked the city, but...

Features & analyses

A guide to the Violence Against Women Act and how it protects immigrant women

  Written by Lumi Zogaj Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a ruling that granted asylum to a Salvadoran woman on the basis of domestic violence. In 2016, The Board of Immigration Appeals had found that the woman qualified for asylum on the grounds of her membership to a particular social group, because married women in El Salvador cannot leave their relationship and the government fails to protect them. Sessions’ decision not only narrowed the use of the...