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The Journey to Finding Success as an Immigrant Professional

August 1, 2019 By Welcoming Center In Workforce Development No Comments

by Lina Duffy Peggy is a dentist. She ran her own dental practice for eight years in her native Colombia. She arrived in Philadelphia in 2015, not speaking a word of English. To improve her English, she enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes at the Community College of Philadelphia. Unable to practice [...]

I Am Just Where I Belong

June 11, 2019 By Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Participant Voices No Comments

by Ben Goebel For as long as I can remember I always wanted to come to America. Maybe not to live here at first, but this country had always been on my mind since my uncle told me how great it was. I finally received my Green Card a couple months ago. I am not [...]

A Better Job Search Experience: How the Welcoming Center Helped Me

June 5, 2019 By Welcoming Center In Workforce Development No Comments

In September 2017, the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians launched the Immigrant Fellowship Program (IFP) in partnership with the City of Philadelphia. The IFP provides graduates of the Welcoming Center's International Professionals Program (IPP) valuable work experience in the United States. In March 2019, the City of Philadelphia recognized the IFP in its Fueling Philadelphia's [...]

From Venezuela to Philadelphia: Finding Success as an Immigrant

April 30, 2019 By Welcoming Center In Workforce Development No Comments

By Gianna Salituri A successful engineer from Venezuela, a dedicated hard worker, a very optimistic person. All of these qualities should bring some kind of success, but it is far more challenging to find a job in your career path as an immigrant in the United States then one would imagine. “It was overwhelming. I [...]

A Place We Can All Call Home

March 22, 2019 By Welcoming Center In Diversity, Immigration No Comments

By Benjamin Butz-Weidner In the late 1800s my great-great grandparents emigrated from Germany to the United States. They settled in West Virginia and middle Pennsylvania, eventually finding permanence in North Philadelphia, which until the 1950s was by an unspoken law divided into ethnic enclaves. My grandmother, describing to me the Philadelphia of her childhood on a restaurant napkin, [...]

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