Applications are open for the #NewAmericanSpeakersProgram – Cohort 10 🎤✨
This 10-week online program is designed for newcomers who want to build confidence in public speaking & share their personal stories with impact.
Apply by April 17th.
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This week, faith leaders, immigrant & refugee rights advocates, and community members—including #RefugeeStorytellersCollective member Bertha who shared an original poem—gathered at the Supreme Court to declare “No Turning Back” on the rights of people seeking safety. @cgrsasylum.bsky.social
What does self-determination look like for refugee women?
This #WomensHistoryMonth, the #RefugeeStorytellersCollective is sharing personal stories from women who have rebuilt their lives in the US, highlighting the realities behind that journey.
www.refugeestorytellerscollective.org/stories/aoyd...
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In Portland, soccer players came together for the Refugee & Immigrant Girls World Cup, offering community members the opportunity to connect.
“It’s something that I would have wanted when I was growing up,” said Abdiwahab, an immigrant & head coach.
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With the Virginia General Assembly continuing negotiations to finalize the state’s budget, Council Member Alsaadun is urging lawmakers to help ensure no Virginian families go hungry in the @pilotonline.com.
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Refugee Advocacy Lab
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A panel of Ohio economists overwhelmingly agree that cutting immigration will harm the state economy, including leading to higher prices for consumers, less small-business formation, & less tax revenue.
Read more from @ohiocapitaljournal.com
Advocates condemn the administration’s plan to arrest & interrogate lawfully resettled refugees.
“The indiscriminate detention of refugees in Minnesota are the opening salvos in an attack on refugees resettled all over the U.S."
Laurie Ball Cooper, @irap.bsky.social
The Virginia General Assembly can make sure that newcomer families have the chance to succeed by funding SNAP.
“No Virginian, regardless of their background, should have to worry about putting food on the table.”
Susannah Lepley, Church World Service
Groups in Philadelphia are giving newcomer communities vital space to share cultural traditions as these communities face harmful immigration actions.
“This is a power that we have — to be able to say… we are culture,” a local community member told @whyy.org.
The Lab & CWS Virginia applaud the passage of legislation that will end unlawful federal operations by ICE in VA, protect sensitive locations, & support additional programming.
We look forward to Gov. Spanburger signing the legislation into law.
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The overwhelming consensus of a panel of economists is that losing large numbers of immigrants will harm the Ohio economy.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
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Stability starts with a foundation. For newcomer families across Virginia, SNAP is that foundation, Harrisonburg City Councilman Nasser Alsaadun writes.
As Virginia lawmakers head into critical budget negotiations, they face a quiet but urgent choice: Whether newly arrived refugees, asylum seekers and others who have fled persecution and sought safety
From Aztec to Indonesian traditions, dance groups offer immigrant children a space for culture, belonging and resilience as families navigate fear and uncertainty.
For Women's History Month, we honor the perseverance and agency of refugee women who define their own futures, often against immense odds. This collection brings together personal stories from women w...
Refugee and civil rights groups condemned a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo clearing the way for the arrest of thousands of refugees lawfully resettled during the Biden…
