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Nina Feldman

The World

Nina Feldman is an independent journalist based in New Orleans.

Nina Feldman is an independent producer based in New Orleans. She contributes regularly to local NPR affiliate WWNO and focuses on stories about community development, city politics and education. If she could have any superpower it would be to speak every language in the world fluently.  She is also the founder of New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling.

Birth certificate

Why some immigrants and refugees in Louisiana are having trouble getting married

Justice

A new law in Louisiana that adds new requirements to process marriage licenses is being challenged for discrimination against refugees and immigrants.

Phosphate deposits on the sea floor off the coast of Baja California could be a feedstock for agricultural fertilizer. But digging them up could put a fishing community, endangered sea turtles and other marine species at risk.

We need phosphate to grow food. But should we be digging it up from the sea floor?

Environment
Kelly Orians facilitates a weekly discussion group for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Until their new space is fully renovated, they meet in the back of an events hall in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood.

Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?

Justice
Cherice Harrison Nelson (R) with her aunt, who is a bishop at a Spiritual Church in New Orleans. The spiritual church has also adapted the St. Joseph’s tradition, and builds elaborate altars.

Why African American churches in New Orleans celebrate a Sicilian holiday

Belief
(Left photo) Mariela, Jefferson and Ilda Sarmiento in the US and (Right photo) Johan in Honduras.

One family, 2 nations: How to stay together while US keeps them apart

Conflict
Nola warehouse

Is something lost when we call New Orleans NOLA?

Culture

Part acronym, part abbreviation, NOLA is an increasingly popular nickname for New Orleans. But does it reflect the city’s cultural and linguistic heritage?

Sang Ho and crew paint his shrimping boat for shrimping season. He now also farms in addition to shrimp fishing.

How anti-communist Vietnamese refugees signed up for a cooperative farm

Economics

Vietnamese shrimpers in New Orleans were doing well until the BP oil spill in 2010 closed the Gulf of Mexico and devastated their businesses. To make ends meet, many in the staunchly anti-communist community adopted an ironic but effective model: a cooperative farm.