My name is Whitney Kweskin, and I am the Senior Program Manager for ALIVE (Advocacy, Leadership, Immigration, and Voter Engagement). I am an immigration advocate, and I also oversee the Civic Pathways leadership program, coordinate our participation in the Coalition of Refugee Service Agencies’ advocacy efforts, and supervise our voter registration program. I started working […]
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For nearly a decade now, New American Pathways has been making a real difference in the lives of tens of thousands of refugees and immigrants. As we gear up to celebrate our tenth anniversary, I want to take the time to look back on our inception, the creation of the Pathway model, and highlight our
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My name is Kyryll Levterov and I’m the Ukrainian Program Outreach Manager at New American Pathways. My job is to facilitate communication between our organization and the Ukrainian community. This involves talking to families and individuals who are still in Ukraine as well as those who are already here in Georgia. I help spread the
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As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s the perfect time to reflect on our year and recount the many reasons we are grateful. We’ve welcomed more than 1,500 arrivals to Atlanta over the past 12 months. These include refugees and humanitarian entrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Burma, Syria, Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and
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My name is Yaron Schwartz and I’m the Director for the United States at the Tent Partnership for Refugees, which mobilizes the global business community to help refugees become job-ready or provide them with work. Founded by Chobani’s founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya in 2016, we are a network of over 300 major companies committed
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I’m Kevin Mulamba and I work at New American Pathways as a Resettlement Case Specialist. I’m from Congo (DRC) but was born and raised in Burundi. I wanted to work at New AP because I’m a refugee myself. I know how hard it can be to move to a country where you don’t speak the
One of the biggest barriers for newly arriving refugees and immigrants is language. Speaking English is a key factor in building a pathway to success in their new homes. Without proficiency in English, refugees and immigrants struggle to attend school and obtain work. Our English At Home (EAH) program serves refugees who are unable to
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My name is Yotin Srivanjarean and I was born and raised in a small town close to the floating market area called Paktho in the city of Ratchaburi, Thailand. I started helping my family’s business selling food when I was 10 years old. For a better education, I had an opportunity to attend high school
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My name is Lino Diadi Momo. I moved to the United States in 2003 at the age of 24 as a Lost Boy refugee from Sudan. The outbreak of civil war in Sudan in 1983 led to the heavy recruitment of child soldiers by the two opposing sides as well as the upheaval of daily
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What’s your name, your AmeriCorps title, and where are you from? My name is Abigail Klima, I am the Elementary Curriculum Member at New American Pathways, and I’m from North Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your background. I moved around a bit growing up, but stayed the longest in a little town in
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