New Women New Yorkers

✨ Calling all immigrant women artists in NYC ✨

New Women New Yorkers is now accepting applications for the 2026 Governors Island Artist Residency, a transformative opportunity for immigrant women artists to expand their practice, connect with the public, and share powerful stories.

This residency is more than studio space. It’s a chance to:
🎨 Grow your creative practice
🌿 Engage with a vibrant artistic community
🌎 Bring underrepresented narratives to life
🖼️ Share your work in one of NYC’s most inspiring cultural spaces

If you’re an immigrant woman artist ready to take the next step, apply now
https://form.jotform.com/250426264493155

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📣 And help us spread the word to your community

Are you an immigrant woman in NYC ready to restart or grow your career?

Join us for our LEAD Spring 2026 Info Session on Wednesday, April 1 in Manhattan and learn how our free job readiness program can support your next step.

LEAD is New Women New Yorkers’ signature workforce development program designed especially for immigrant women. Participants gain practical tools to reenter their professional fields, explore new career paths, pursue further education, and build confidence in a supportive community.

📍 Manhattan Info Session
April 1 | 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Stavros Niarchos Library

Program runs April 15 – June 3 (Wednesdays)

Participation is free.
Open to adult immigrant women living in NYC or the tristate area with a high school diploma (or equivalent) and intermediate English.

Spots are limited. Register today:
https://form.jotform.com/242526379139060

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For many immigrant women, arriving in New York City with strong education and professional experience does not immediately open professional doors. Alexandra, who came from Russia, knows that feeling well.

When she arrived in 2023, she dreamed of building a career in clean energy. Despite her experience and a master’s degree from University of Colorado Boulder, the job search was discouraging.

“When I first started job searching, I didn’t really understand how the market worked,” Alexandra shares. “I was sending many applications online, but for a foreign professional, the process can be much more complicated.”

After more than 100 applications, things began to change when she joined the Clean Energy Career Exploration program at New Women New Yorkers and completed an internship with the Willdan Clean Energy Academy.

“For the first time, I felt that people could see what I was capable of,” she says.

Today, Alexandra works as a Sustainability Engineering Manager at Altanova, proving that persistence, opportunity, and community can open new doors.

🌱 Ready to take the next step toward a clean energy career?

New Women New Yorkers offers Clean Energy Career Connect to support immigrant women in choosing a clean energy pathway and building a plan toward job placement, with referrals to advanced training, certifications, and job opportunities.

🔗 Register for an Info Session to learn more: https://shorturl.at/Y3V8w

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This January, 12 immigrant women shared their climate stories through writing and photography, and it was powerful.

They gathered for an evening of storytelling, reflection, and community, sharing deeply personal experiences of climate change shaped by migration and life in New York City.

From memories of mango trees and home gardens to reflections on recycling, pollution, and the shifting weather patterns of their home countries, each story revealed how climate change is lived, remembered, and carried across borders.

Photography was an integral part of the program. Participants developed composition skills that strengthened their narratives and transformed personal reflection into visual testimony.

This is what climate justice looks like: centering lived experience, amplifying immigrant women’s voices, and connecting storytelling to pathways in clean energy and sustainability.

We are grateful to Con Edison for generously supporting this work and partnering with us to expand access to clean energy careers while uplifting community-led climate storytelling.

We are choosing to gather.
We are choosing to listen.
We are choosing to believe that stories still matter.

Join us on March 26 for We All Come From Somewhere, an evening of live storytelling centered on migration, identity, and belonging.

🗓 March 26 | 7–9 pm
📍 Hemmerdinger Hall, NYC
🍷 Storytelling + reception included

This special evening supports New Women New Yorkers’ workforce development and community programs for immigrant women across New York City.

🎟 Tickets are now available
🔗 https://weallcomefromsomewhere.eventbrite.com/

We All Come from Somewhere Join us for a powerful storytelling fundraiser celebrating immigrant women’s voices, resilience, and paths to empowerment.

This International Day of Women & Girls in Science, we’re celebrating what becomes possible when access, guidance, and opportunity come together.

In partnership with Accenture, New Women New Yorkers hosted an AI Resume & Career Workshop for immigrant women job seekers, using AI not as a shortcut but as a tool for learning, building confidence, and exploring careers in STEM.

“I love learning the principles of a good prompt. It really improved the way I ask ChatGPT,” shared one participant.

“This was a great session! My partner got so much out of it and left with clear direction to improve her resume,” said an Accenture volunteer.

When women are supported to engage with technology on their own terms, innovation becomes a bridge, not a barrier, to inclusion and economic mobility.

Earlier this week was Climate Action Day, and we’re still sitting with the powerful stories shared at last week’s Climate Chronicles Exhibit Showcase.

In “I Want to Talk About the Trash,” Dilenia Carolina Rodriguez reflects on waste, memory, and hope, tracing a journey from Esperanza in the Dominican Republic to midtown Manhattan.

Read the full piece on our blog: https://www.nywomenimmigrants.org/i-want-to-talk-about-the-trash/

I Want to Talk About the Trash By Dilenia Carolina Rodriguez Every day on my lunch break, I have the option to choose from countless take-out options: salad or grain bowls, a smoothie or a snack.

This Black History Month, we celebrate Black women in our community and beyond — including Black immigrant women — organizers, caregivers, culture keepers, and leaders whose resilience and vision continue to shape our collective future.

✨ In that spirit, we also honor Farah Tanis, a NYC-based feminist activist, organizer, and founder of Black Women’s Blueprint. Her survivor-centered leadership advances racial and gender justice and works to end violence against Black women and girls.

Through survivor-centered organizing and community accountability, her leadership has helped shape spaces where Black women can heal, organize, and lead — including many Black immigrant women navigating systems of harm and exclusion.

We are choosing to gather.
We are choosing to listen.
We are choosing to believe that stories still matter.

Join us on March 26 for We All Come From Somewhere, an evening of live storytelling on migration, identity, and belonging, followed by a reception with food and drinks. The event will take place near Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

🎟 Tickets are now available.

🔗 Register here: https://weallcomefromsomewhere.eventbrite.com