February 26, 2025

Where Nashville's Immigrant and Refugee Neighbors Tell Their Stories

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Where Nashville's Immigrant and Refugee Neighbors Tell Their Stories

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Where are the safe places for creative expression in Nashville? Nina Adel, a program director at writing collective The Porch, and Nallely Ortega Prater, a poet and first-generation immigrant from Mexico, sit down with host Marie Cecile Anderson to discuss how their Immigrants Write workshop is fostering an incredible community.

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