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- 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 of
- Topics: Afghan Response, News, News Coverage
- 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 Krause-Vilmar
- Topics: Afghan Response, News Coverage
- 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 had
- August 17, 2023
CHICAGO — Upwardly Global today commends Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s signing of two key pieces of legislation that help eliminate licensing barriers for internationally trained doctors to practice medicine in the state, a groundbreaking step to alleviate critical labor shortages in the healthcare sector. Upwardly Global, the leading organization promoting
- Topics: Featured News, Healthcare, News, Policy
- August 16, 2023
Upwardly Global was featured in an article by USA Today centered around the immigrant job-seeker experience with AI technology. The article featured Carlos Cabrera, an Upwardly Global alum from Venezuela who has also been interviewed by NPR. Is AI a threat to the job market? Not necessarily, and here’s why.