Author: Feet in 2 Worlds
Bio: Feet in 2 Worlds (Fi2W) is an independent media outlet, journalism training program, and launchpad for emerging immigrant journalists and media makers of color. Our work brings positive and meaningful change to America's newsrooms and has a broader impact on how immigration is reported and the ethnic and racial composition of news organizations.
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Posted on: 12 May 2009
By Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Immigrant business owners have breathed new life into the North Shore of Staten Island, New York’s least populated and least diverse borough. Feet in 2 Worlds partnered with WNYC, New York public radio, to produce a profile of Victory Boulevard, one of Staten Island’s major thoroughfares, for the Main Street […]
Posted on: 04 May 2009
Feet In 2 Worlds contributor Sooyeon Kim covered the immigration rallies that took place Friday in Manhattan. The earlier Madison Square Park rally, which featured a text messaging campaign, was attended by immigrants from many different backgrounds. Kim reports: Despite the pouring rain, hundreds of immigrant rights supporters started marching at 6 p.m. to City […]
Posted on: 24 Apr 2009
A New Generation of Polish-Americans, a story by Feet in 2 Worlds and Polish Daily News reporter Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, is the main feature on this week’s NPR show Latino USA (find your NPR station here). From the Latino USA website: The history of Poland hasn’t always been pretty. While historians would say the country was […]
Posted on: 03 Mar 2009
Feet In 2 Worlds‘ web editor Diego Graglia was a guest today on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio, to talk about President Barack Obama’s recent statement on Spanish-language radio about his plans to start working on immigration reform this year. On his interview with Los Angeles-based Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, the […]
Posted on: 24 Feb 2009
This weekend, Kurt Andersen’s nationally-syndicated public radio show Studio 360 featured a piece by La Opinión and Feet In 2 Worlds reporter Pilar Marrero on Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor who will take over the Los Angeles Philharmonic this fall. Marrero, who is also from Venezuela, went to see “the Dude” in action with […]
Posted on: 17 Feb 2009
“If you don’t speak English, you’re missing out at work, at home,” Luciene Campos said in Portuguese. “When you do, you’re more respected.” She was one of some 600 immigrants, many of them Brazilian, who recently jammed the auditorium of a Framingham, Mass. middle school waiting for a lottery that would assign 185 slots in […]
Posted on: 10 Feb 2009
By M. Thang, EthnicNEWz.org Two-term Boston City Councilor Sam Yoon — the only Asian on the council of 13 elected members — announced his bid to run for mayor Sunday. His announcement ends years of speculation that he would eventually run for the city’s top job. In an interview with Sampan newspaper in October of […]
Posted on: 09 Feb 2009
Nationally-syndicated radio show Latino USA featured one of FI2W reporter Martina Guzmán’s recent pieces this weekend. You can listen to it here: [audio:http://www.utexas.edu/coc/kut/latinousa/stationservices/podcast/2009/02/0206_01_lusa_podcast.mp3] From Latino USA‘s website: “The numbers are bad, and they just keep coming. Home Depot reports 7,000 jobs lost, and as Circuit City closes its doors, 4,000 more disappear. Car sales haven’t […]
Posted on: 03 Feb 2009
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The election of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee has been hailed by some as yet another effect of Barack Obama’s ascent to the presidency. “It took the election of the nation’s first African-American president, one who won landslide margins among […]
Posted on: 01 Feb 2009
Handmade rugs from around the world have made their way into the homes of metro Detroiters, collectors and art aficionados across the United States thanks to the Hagopians, an Armenian family from Detroit. Feet In 2 Worlds reporter Martina Guzmán aired a report last week on WDET, Detroit Public Radio, about the Hagopian family’s commitment […]
