The World from PRX

Nina FeldmanNF

Nina Feldman

The World
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
Justice
Why some immigrants and refugees in Louisiana are having trouble getting married
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.
Environment
We need phosphate to grow food. But should we be digging it up from the sea floor?
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.
Justice
Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?
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.
Belief
Why African American churches in New Orleans celebrate a Sicilian holiday
(Left photo) Mariela, Jefferson and Ilda Sarmiento in the US and (Right photo) Johan in Honduras.
Conflict
One family, 2 nations: How to stay together while US keeps them apart
Nola warehouse
Culture
Is something lost when we call New Orleans NOLA?
Sang Ho and crew paint his shrimping boat for shrimping season. He now also farms in addition to shrimp fishing.
Economics
How anti-communist Vietnamese refugees signed up for a cooperative farm