Tiziana Sianora Rinaldi

I authored this article as part of my graduate studies at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, at CUNY. I met Clara Sofia Ochoa in 2016 while covering immigrant malemployment in New Jersey. Here’s the story of how she immigrated to the…

I’m Tiziana Rinaldi, a multimedia journalist and the founder of Life in A New World, a developing media platform for new Americans. Since moving to the U.S. from Italy in 1990, English has been the idiom of my becoming. The faithful companion of a…

Mosaic crosses of earth and ivory tones run through the floor, grounding the faithful in search of Heaven. The simplicity of pure white and azure pastels rises above, brightened by the shimmer of Venetian chandeliers and painted madonnas. Behind, in…

It began as a keep-in-touch note that grew very long and hijacked their creative connection. Two prolific writers, Andrei Guruianu, 34, a Romanian born poet and essayist who grew up in Queens, and Anthony Di Renzo, 54, his novelist counterpart of…

Is a life that lifts us above our cultural and geographic boundaries truly achievable? Can we really be greater than the sum of our multicultural parts and experiences? Cate Brubaker and Sabrina Ziegler, the intercultural entrepreneurs behind the…

Imam Shamsi Ali Imam Shamsi Ali, leader of Musjid Al-Hikmah and president of Nusantara Foundation, talks about being an Indonesian Muslim in America. In this video interview he shares revealing truths about embracing a culture of peace and…

Dr. Fiona Citkin Today’s episode (10:00 am on Bronxnet, C68 Verizon and C34 Fios) is all about us, the foreign born American women who bring a “healthy diet” of grit, creativity and tenacity to our adopted land, as featured guest Dr. Fiona Citkin…

Migration is narrowing the distance among the people of the world and Hollywood is curious about it. That’s the formula behind The Hundred-Foot Journey, the cinematic adaptation of Richard C. Morais’ bestselling novel, directed by Lasse Hallström and…

He once took a London journalist on tour and the nickname stuck: Mr. Ellis Island. As a new American, a fascination with the epic station that welcomed 12 million of my predecessors had been kneading my conscience for years; in fact, paying a visit…

Mort Kunsler 1931, Ellis Island Main Hall. Photo Courtesy: American Gallery – Greatest American Painters Most of Ellis’ beauty and meaning came to light through Tom Bernardin’s skillful storytelling and vivid detail of the immigration process, which…

Elisabet Cairo, the author of Just to Be Held, the novel of a woman’s search for her true-self in Spain, shares the story of her path to finding home… Listen to Elisabet’s narration and visist Life In A New World on Vimeo. For more about Elisabet’s…

Did you ever wish to leave it all behind? The daily doldrums, a job that depletes your spirit or an unhappy relationship that should have ended years ago. And what about those stereotypes of happy endings imposed by consumerism, religious beliefs or…

Tune in today at 10:00 am to watch Life In A New World on cable TV. Go to Bronxnet channel 34, if you have FIOS, or channel 68 on Cablevision. In this episode, you will meet three members of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education Training and…

Tune in this Friday, June 13th to watch Oscar Romero, the New York facilitator of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research), Cate Brubaker of SmallPlanetStudio.com and Sabrina Ziegler of Authentizen.com to hear how you can…

The Filipino-born entrepreneur will share the road she covered from the dark days of her husband’s political execution in Bohol, the Philippines, to celebrating 1 million clicks on OSM! the online magazine she launched in New York to tell the stories…

Tune in this May 9 to watch Marivir Montebon‘s interview on Life In A New World. The Filipino-born entrepreneur will share the road she covered from the dark days of her husband’s political execution in Bohol, the Philippines, to celebrating 1…

It’s hardly the topic of meet ups and cocktail parties, but disenfranchised grief, the type of sadness that can creep into someone’s life when profound feelings of loss or inadequacy are invalidated by societal norms, can wreck havoc. It can happen…

Marivir Montebon didn’t leave the Philippines because of lack of opportunity. Her life was filled with family and friends and rewarded by a fulfilling career. But when her husband, a political leader, was assassinated in the summer of 2007 she had no…

Anyone who thought that they might be without “baggage,” think again. The society we grow up in, its language, the culture, our family’s interpretation of it and our own affect all of us profoundly. They shape who we are and how we experience…

Fresh from his book launch of “Trinàcria: A Tale of Bourbon Sicily” Anthony Di Renzo visited the set of Life in a New World for a lively conversation about shattering stereotypes and embracing new perspectives. He talked about his literary adventure,…