With racist anti-immigrant rhetoric sentiment growing in the past few years, we felt it was important to acknowledge National Immigrants Day which is on October 28th. This day was officially established by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 on the 101st anniversary of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty to celebrate the unique history of the U.S. as a nation built and developed by immigrants.
A wonderful way to acknowledge this day is to hear the stories of immigrants. Featured below is an immigrant storytelling series from the Washington D.C. organization Story District whose aim is to "build bridges through the transformative power of storytelling."
You can also visit I Stand with Immigrants/I Am an Immigrant to learn more about this organization's advocacy work through storytelling.
Our Projects Manager, Judy Lee, is an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1978. You can hear a bit about her name story as an immigrant, along with her art project telling the name stories of other Asian American immigrants and children of immigrants in this short documentary My Name Story.