Immigration: Then and Now | Ruth Messinger | TEDxRiverdaleCountrySchool

Immigration is the past, present, and future of New York City. Former Manhattan Borough president Ruth Messinger highlights how we must steer our city toward a future that embraces the richness of opportunity and humanity that immigration gives to our community. Ruth Messinger is a life-long advocate and activist for human rights. She is currently both the inaugural Global Ambassador for American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and the inaugural Finkelstein Institute Social Justice Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In each position Messinger is engaging rabbis and interfaith leaders to work collaboratively and take action on behalf of oppressed and persecuted communities domestically and globally.

Messinger lectures around the U.S. and holds prominent roles in the faith-based advocacy arena including as a member of the World Bank’s Moral Imperative Working Group to End Extreme Poverty. Recently, Ruth has been working tirelessly on behalf of migrants arriving in New York City, and is advocating for the mayor, state, and federal governments to provide ongoing support. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx