New Americans Initiative
One Saturday each Month, 7:45 am - 2:00 pm

The New Americans Initiative (NAI) is a partnership between the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the State of Illinois. They organize workshops that give the opportunity for permanent residents to pursue U.S. citizenship. As volunteers for NAI at NU, you will be a facilitator for mainly Hispanic/Latino immigrants, and will be helping them fill out their N-400 (the US application for naturalization). Volunteers travel from all over to the workshops (which vary in location) once a month, because it is a wonderful way to help the immigrant population of Chicago and its surrounding areas. By becoming a facilitator, you get some great field experience in. If you want, you can also work on your Spanish skills by helping Spanish speakers to complete the application, but proficiency in Spanish is not required to be a facilitator!

For more information, please feel free to contact the site leaders, Aireale and Jory at nu.newamericans@gmail.com.

Site Leaders:
Aireale Rodgers ( airealerodgers2007@u.northwestern.edu )
Jory Pomeranz ( j-pomeranz@northwestern.edu )