Immigrantly Podcast

9/11 at 25: Guantánamo Never Closed. Now It Holds Immigrants

Twenty-five years after September 11th, Guantánamo Bay is still open. Fifteen men are still held there. Six have never been charged with anything at all. And on August 26

What Investors Say After Founders Leave the Room with Erika Lucas

Erika Lucas spent years inside private equity and venture capital, the rooms that decide who gets funded in America. Then she left to build what goes around them. In this

Feed Drop: Did You Know the Girl Scouts Was Led by a Pakistani American? Meet Noorain Khan (from Pehchaan)

This week, we're sharing an episode from Pehchaan, hosted by Bilal Lakhani with co-host Ambreen Ali, a show about the Pakistani diaspora in the US, told by the people liv

Solo Episode: I Memorized the Civil War. Gettysburg Made Me Feel It

There's a question on the U.S. citizenship test, question 74, that asks you to name one cause of the Civil War. The Government accepts three answers: slavery, economic re

UNRWA USA CEO Mara Kronenfeld on Gaza, Genocide And Jewish Identity

UNRWA USA CEO Mara Kronenfeld is a Jewish American woman and the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor — and she leads the American nonprofit supporting the UN agency for

Feed Drop: Occupy! Episode 1: The Invitation (by Future Hindsight)

In 2011, a handful of skeptical New Yorkers answer a call to Occupy Wall Street. What they find feels less like a protest and more like a glimpse of a different world—one

My First Guest Returns: Sahar Saleem on Corporate Exits And Somatic Healing

Seven years ago, Sahar Saleem was the first-ever guest on Immigrantly, talking about her creative marketing career at PepsiCo. She's back, and everything has changed. In

Darializa Avila Chevalier Refuses to Fit in Your Box

"No one fits into these types of boxes." Darializa Avila Chevalier has spent her whole life being asked to pick one: Black or Latina, Dominican or American, organizer or

Who Gets to Be American? A History of Birthright Citizenship on Trial (July 2025)

The Supreme Court just upheld birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order in a 6-3 ruling that leans directly on a case 130 years in the making. We're r

Feed Drop: The Nikkah Loophole, from More Muslim

Sharing a special episode this week from the More Muslim podcast. Reporter Tanita Rahmani realizes a small detail—blue ink instead of black on a marriage contract—means h

The Immigrant Vote Nobody Is Using

There's a voting bloc large enough to decide 126 congressional races and most of it isn't showing up. In this episode, Saadia Khan breaks down data on naturalized citizen

Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here (March 2025)

What does it really mean to belong, and what happens when belonging feels like betrayal? Beatriz Nour has lived this question. Born in France, raised between Brazil and

The One NYC Race That Could Change How $300 Billion Gets Spent

Saadia Khan sits down with Raj Goyle, whose parents came from India with a few dollars and a medical degree. His mom was the only female OB in Wichita shut out by the est

The Dude Who's Winning Men Over to the Left

His Instagram bio says it all: "Just a dude working on political stuff." Charlie Goldensohn grew up in San Francisco's Mission District with a Marxist activist father an

The Hate America Allowed

On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, host Saadia Khan reflects on the San Diego mosque shooting that killed three men during prayer — and the Instagram comment calling Islam a "blo

Who Really Owns This Art? A Smithsonian Insider Gets Honest

Your favorite museum might be built on stolen goods. Nicole Dowd works inside the Smithsonian,  and she's not here to defend it. Saadia Khan sits down with Nicole to brea

The Promise of Queens

What does it look like when someone walks away from a prestigious career, on principle, and comes back fighting? Chuck Park did exactly that. A son of Korean immigrants w

Once You Leave, You're Never the Same

Immigrant life in New York City looks glamorous from the outside, but what happens when you arrive in January with snow up to your knees, no work permit, and no roadmap f

Hip Hop Into Your Raw Self with Zainab Hasnain FKA ZEEMUFFIN (Dec 2022)

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Praying in Secret: What It Really Costs to Be Muslim in America

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