In the final installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Guerline Jozef, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, Inc.

In the seventh installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Bilal Askaryar, Communications Coordinator, #WelcomeWithDignity Campaign, tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “Afghans are used to being forgotten, used to being the number one story in the news for a week, two weeks, a month, and then not ever being talked about again. And so one thing that we've learned is that when the moment hits, you seize it!

In the sixth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Jonathan Jayes-Green (they/them), Vice President of Programs at Marguerite Casey Foundation, tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva,“I know that some folks might not be as happy with us, like the fact that we, as a movement over the years, with the language that we use, through the strategies that we pursued, through the narratives that we've told, have picked winners and losers — have picked the good and the bad immigrants.

In the fifth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021,  Jeff Chang, Senior Advisor at Race Forward, Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “It's been really important for a lot of folks, many who are at this conference, to be able to encourage folks to really understand how anti-Blackness works in the context of immigration reform. And so I think the idea of solidarity is something that needs to really be put into practice.”

In the fourth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director of the Asian American Federation tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva,“ I had to create a lexicon with our communities – that if you say the words enough people start to say it too.

In the third installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Shiu-Ming Cheer (she/her), Deputy Director of Programs & Campaigns at the California Immigrant Policy Center tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “This is the first time at the conference that there has been an AAPI-specific plenary, and I think in large part it was in response to the rise in anti-Asian violence over the last two years during COVID.

In the second installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Angelica Salas, Executive Director at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights tells  Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva, “What I notice is that immigration and immigrant rights become the one thing that can be sacrificed at the end of a long battle towards progressive justice.