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Inspirational Black Men In Tech: Mundi Fomukong of Enovsys On The Five Things You Need To Know In Order To Create A Very Successful Tech Company

Magazine, Making Money, The Immigrant Experience
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Inspirational Black Men In Tech: Mundi Fomukong of Enovsys On The Five Things You Need To Know In Order To Create A Very Successful Tech Company

As part of my series about “Lessons From Inspirational Black Men In Tech”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mundi Fomukong, an inventor from California, USA, and the founder of Enovsys LLC.

Fomukong is a wireless systems architect and holds a Master of Science in Electronic System Design, specializing on aircraft electronic systems, from Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK. Enovsys was founded in 2003 and develops mobile phone system technology. The company owns key patented technology worldwide, in the area of location tracking, location disclosure and privacy, geofencing and proximity determination, and mobile banking.

Congresswoman wears hanbok at swearing-in ceremony, honors Korean immigrant mom

Asia & Pacific Islanders, Feature Stories, Heritage, Immigration, Magazine, The Immigrant Experience
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Congresswoman wears hanbok at swearing-in ceremony, honors Korean immigrant mom

One of the first Korean Americans elected to Congress paid homage to her heritage during her swearing-in ceremony Sunday.

Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash. — who became one of the first three Korean American women elected to Congress last year, as well as the first Black representative from Washington — wore a traditional Korean hanbok as she took the oath of office.

Dr. Bilola Theresia Doh, African Immigrant & Academic In Finland Seeks To Shape Pathways For Immigrants Through Political Engagement

Africa & Caribbean, Feature Stories, Heritage, Magazine, The Immigrant Experience
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Dr. Bilola Theresia Doh, African Immigrant & Academic In Finland Seeks To Shape Pathways For immigrants Through Political Engagement

In an era of firsts in the United States where we usher in the first female Vice President Kamala Harris, many wonder why it’s taken so long for this to happen in the most powerful nation in the world. Many parts of the world are really no strangers to a female at the helm of political power including, Asia, Europe etc. The immigrant story is however one of those areas where the United States may be in a better position to lead as its foundation is made solid by the contributions of immigrants.

Biden Administration Offers Hope to Immigrants Seeking the American Dream

Feature Stories, Immigration, Magazine, The Immigrant Experience
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Immigrants Biden Admin

As Joe Biden prepares to become the 46th president of the United States, many people wonder how immigration will be handled differently under this new administration.

Certainly, in recent years the story for so many immigrants is very different from the way it was for me when I embarked on my American journey more than three decades ago, arriving from Argentina with a mixture of trepidation and excitement.

HOW LA COUNTY SERVES OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

Feature Stories, Immigration, Magazine
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los angeles county california

Los Angeles County has the largest immigrant population in the United States’ making up 35% of its 10million residents. As such it is imperative that to run a thriving economy where immigrants contribute massively to its fabric, their needs be met in all aspects. On a zoom conference  for ethnic media outlets hosted by Ethnic Media Services, County officials  shared how they help their very diverse  immigrant communities.

If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

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If COVID-19 Vaccines Bring An End To The Pandemic, America Has Immigrants To Thank

Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó believed in the potential of messenger RNA — the genetic molecule at the heart of two new COVID-19 vaccines — even when almost no one else did.

Karikó began working with RNA as a student in Hungary. When funding for her job there ran out, Kariko immigrated to Philadelphia in 1985. Over the years, she’s been rejected for grant after grant, threatened with deportation and demoted from her faculty job by a university that saw her research as a dead end.

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