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- September 26, 2023
NEW YORK — Upwardly Global has taken center stage on the new Cheddar News docuseries, “Ready 4 Work.” This series follows six job seekers as they navigate the U.S. job market. From stay-at-home parents to seasoned professionals undergoing career changes, “Ready 4 Work” explores the challenges and triumphs job
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- September 21, 2023
Check out highlights from Upwardly Global’s successful Equity Gala, which took place on September 20, 2023, at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York City. The Gala not only celebrated the remarkable achievements of the Upwardly Global community nationwide but also passionately championed the cause of immigrant and refugee workforce
- September 21, 2023
LinkedIn, Standard Chartered, and distinguished corporate leaders honored for advocacy in building an inclusive workforce NEW YORK — The curtains have drawn on Upwardly Global’s successful annual Equity Gala, which took place on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at the iconic Tribeca Rooftop in New York City. The Gala not
- September 18, 2023
Upwardly Global’s new report, “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee Students,” was recently featured on Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a biweekly magazine covering matters of access, diversity, inclusion, and opportunity for all in higher education. The report, created with funding from Lumina Foundation and
- September 7, 2023
Our new report, “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee Students,” was featured on The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Nearly one in three community-college students is from an immigrant background, according to a new report from Upwardly Global, a national nonprofit organization that works to help
- September 7, 2023
Immigrant students make up nearly one-third of the student population in community colleges Upwardly Global, the national nonprofit working to support immigrants and refugees with international credentials to restart their careers in the United States, released a new report titled “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and
- September 6, 2023
Our new report, “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee Students,” which discusses community colleges and the impact of their service offerings on immigrant and refugee students, was recently featured on Inside Higher Ed. The report’s findings, written in collaboration with the Lumina Foundation and the
- August 28, 2023
Upwardly Global President and CEO Jina Krause-Vilmar spoke with the Daily Mail about the continued legal limbo faced by some 78,000 Afghan newcomers who arrived after the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. “‘We have a long history in the United States of using humanitarian parole in the context
- August 21, 2023
Upwardly Global was featured in a video entitled “New Afghans to the United States have played an important role in the country’s economy”, by Voice of America. The piece is in Dari, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. In an interview, Upwardly Global President and CEO Jina
- August 18, 2023
Empowered by Upwardly Global, Farzana reignites a cause-driven career in New York City nonprofits As a young woman in Afghanistan, 27-year-old Farzana stood out. “I was one of those strange girls,” she says. Throughout her upbringing, she pushed her conservative family to support her educational pursuits, which Afghan women