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Your ultimate New York voting guide for the 2024 elections
Here at Epicenter NYC, we want to make voting less daunting. We understand it can be complicated figuring out things like the district you’re in or what issues and candidates are on the ballot. This guide will help you know everything from how to register to vote (including those who have been incarcerated) to what…
Teens and young adults are struggling when they transition from pediatric to adult care
Transitioning from pediatric care to adult healthcare can be a stressful experience for teens and young adults. This change in providers often leaves them feeling abandoned by the healthcare safety blanket they once knew. It compounds the already tough transition into adulthood, and having to manage their own appointments and medications without the help of…
The Rikers Island slog goes on
On Tuesday, federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain held a status conference on the ongoing litigation in Nunez v. Department of Correction, the federal case involving unconstitutional conditions at the Rikers Island jail complex. Coming together were multiple members of the federal monitoring team led by longtime corrections expert Steve Martin, as well as lawyers for…
Some big news on Epicenter’s four-year anniversary
I am not a big fan of organizations marking their anniversaries because it feels a milestone more about us than the communities we seek to serve. But Epicenter has been around for exactly four years this week, and we’re really proud of that. In those four years, we have won some awards, pioneered a diverse…
Tastes like Peru: How a business grew from an immigrant’s viral TikTok
Piero Tasaico immigrated from Lima five years ago, at 18, and went into business with his father, selling traditional Peruvian food out of a cart on 97th Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Tasaico’s only experience cooking was in prep work: peeling potatoes for an aunt’s business in Lima. But he wanted to learn. So Tasaico took…
Sikh advocates are counting on young people to increase voting in their community
Like many children of immigrants, Yashpreet Singh grew up interpreting and translating for his Punjabi parents. This, in part, fueled his interest in community affairs and led him to canvas for state representative Ranjeev Puri, the first Sikh American lawmaker in Michigan, who would represent Yashpreet’s district in Canton, a suburb of Detroit. Yashpreet was…
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