Author: Sarah Kate Kramer
Bio: Sarah Kate Kramer first got hooked on collecting stories as a StoryCorps facilitator, then traveled the world with a microphone for a few years before settling down in her hometown of New York City. From 2010-2012 she was the editor of Feet in 2 Worlds and a freelance reporter for WNYC Radio, where she created “Niche Market,” a weekly segment that profiled specialty stores in New York. Sarah is now a producer at Radio Diaries, a non-profit that produces documentaries for NPR and other public radio outlets.
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Posted on: 30 Nov 2010
Young people in New York are calling for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to bring the DREAM Act to a vote before Republicans assume the majority in the House in 2012.
Posted on: 29 Nov 2010
Feet in Two Worlds wants to hear from Haitian immigrants and others interested in the situation in Haiti, following Sunday’s voting.
Posted on: 24 Nov 2010
An online project from the Center for Community Change highlights the human element of the debate over immigration, telling the stories of America’s newest residents.
Posted on: 16 Nov 2010
Cautiously optimistic advocates cheered the California Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to continue allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates to public colleges, assuming they attend high school in California for at least three years.
Posted on: 15 Nov 2010
Congressional leaders will make a push for the DREAM Act, a bill that would create a path towards legalization for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrant youth, before Republicans take over the House in 2011.
Posted on: 10 Nov 2010
Republican victories at the state level mean that Arizona-style immigration bills will start popping up in 2011. Here’s a primer on the states most likely to pass tough new laws.
Posted on: 08 Nov 2010
Last week’s elections resulted in victories for a large number of Republican candidates with immigrant roots.
Posted on: 21 Oct 2010
Part of the effort is encouraging new citizens to represent those who can’t vote at the polls–the undocumented.
Posted on: 13 Oct 2010
Despite anti-undocumented immigrant rhetoric on its television network, Fox News has launched a new website – called Fox News Latino – it hopes will attract assimilated Hispanics.
Posted on: 08 Oct 2010
The fact that Meg Whitman and Lou Dobbs employed undocumented workers shouldn’t be news: it’s the status quo.