LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Layered Marginalization, So These Four Organizations Are Here to Help
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue identifies AsylumConnect as one of four organizations countering the challenging asylum seeking process for LGBTQ asylum seekers.Katie Sgarro’s AsylumConnect Helps LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Access Safe Services
Forbes
Read about our co-founder and president Katie Sgarro in this recent Forbes article.
Sanctuary and Sisterhood: How a Local Org Empowers Immigrant Girls
BK Reader
BK Reader recently wrote an article about our founder Lauren Blodgett. Read on for more.
How Bodycams Distort Real Life
NY Times
STOP's executive director, Albert Fox Cahn wrote an op-ed for the N.Y. Times. Read about how new technologies have side effects that aren’t fully understood until the technology is in wide use.
NYC Food Cart Vendors Protest After Being Pushed Out of Spots by Business Group
Vice
Read this Vice article about how SVP amplified the voice of Wahede Whab and advocated for him with a rally when bike racks and planters were placed in his family's fruit stand spot of 35 yearsMidtown food cart operators say 34th Street Partnership is using planters, benches to force them out
AMNY
AmNewYork on SVP's advocacy for 31st and 32nd St. food carts, who have been pushed out by the 34th Street Partnership's use of planters and benches.Street vendors fight for space on crowded midtown blocks
“We realize that there’s lots of competition for public space in New York. Street vendors should be part of that,” says Matthew Shapiro, the legal director for the Street Vendor Project. “They should be part of the discussion whenever the city wants to put news stands or way-finding signs or planters or bike racks—these are all important, but vendors are also important, and they need to be a part of that discussion.”
SNAP Snapped: City closes food stamp assistance center
Manhattan News
On June 28, the HRA stopped offering assistance for SNAP benefits at its St. Nicholas Center. The center served about 90 individuals per day. In recent weeks, the Safety Net Project spearheaded an effort to keep the center from closing. We organized petition letters and rallied community advocate walks.Charge City Making It Tougher to Sign Up for Food Stamps
Kiana Davis, a benefits advocate at SNP, discusses the de Blasio administration's use of misleading data to support their closing of an East Harlem snap center. “We think the city has made some misleading statements justifying the closure,” she said during a phone interview. “And we find their statistics highly problematic.”
Clinton Foundation’s “Why Am I Telling You This?” Podcast
In this episode, Chelsea Clinton speaks with Katie Sgarro who is helping LGBTQ+ asylum seekers find safe, immigrant-friendly services though her organization, AsylumConnect.
