Posts By: Lucía Isabel Seda
Lucía Seda is a Master’s student in Global Journalism and French Studies at New York University. A graduate of Brown University, she worked as an English and Creative Writing teacher at a public high school in Brooklyn for four years. She currently teaches a Saturday writing class to high school sophomores at Legal Outreach, an education nonprofit in Queens.
September 25, 2015 > Nicki Fleischner
Undocumented Immigrants to Meet Pope Francis in New York
NEW YORK — On a small soccer field in the shadows of Yankee Stadium, Cristian Contreras practices in the goal. It is where he has spent most of his Saturdays […] Read More >
May 28, 2015 > Nicki Fleischner
Photo Essay: Cubans Participate (or Don’t) in Havana’s 12th Biennial
HAVANA, Cuba — A stream of Cuban children push and jostle one another, fighting for a spot at the front of the line. A mother blows a whistle hanging from […] Read More >
December 16, 2014 > Nicki Fleischner
Alternatives to Detention Leave Some Honduran Immigrants in “Shackles”
NEW YORK — On an average weekday Eva, a 39-year-old woman from Honduras, never leaves a 15-block radius in the Bronx. From bringing her two children to school, to taking […] Read More >
December 14, 2014 > Nicki Fleischner
Cuban Laws May Have Changed, But the Jokes Haven’t
In 2010, I found myself among hundreds of heeled and hairsprayed Cubans in Havana’s Teatro Karl Marx waiting for the start of the Premios Lucas — a sort of MTV […] Read More >
October 8, 2014 > Nicki Fleischner
A Day on a New York City “Rocket Docket”
The minors and their guardians sit in the fluorescent-lit room and stare at the sketch on the whiteboard. The image represents a map of Mexico and the U.S. separated by […] Read More >