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Fisayo Okare

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Newsletter Writer at Documented

Multimedia Journo| Newsletter Writer for "Early Arrival" &"Our City" on @Documentedny | 🎓@SMC_PAU & @ColumbiaJourn | 💚Nigerian food is bae | Oluwafisayomi 🕊️

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  • 2 weeks ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare

    It’s been a real honor to have written over 500 issues of Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter over nearly four years. The first edition of Early Arrival I wrote hit readers’ inboxes on December 1, 2021, leading with a story on “How the Taxi Medallion Crisis Impacted Immigrants.” That piece focused on how Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration finally agreed to a taxi medallion debt restructuring plan, resolving a decades-long crisis for New York City’s taxi workers.

  • 3 weeks ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare

    Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. App store turns ICE raids into crypto quests:A new blockchain platform called ICERAID pays users in tokens to photograph suspected undocumented immigrants — a surveillance state built by civilians, gamified for profit.

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Fisayo Okare

    2 hours agoEucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholdersA eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local …3 hours agoUFC Cuts Ties With Legend’s Nephew After Disastrous RunLet’s face it. It’s tough being the grand son of a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu pioneer and the nephew of a UFC legend. Those are tough shoes to fill if you’re attempting to establish a career in combat sports.

  • 3 weeks ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare

    Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after Social Security freeze:The program halted suddenly, leaving legal immigrants unable to work because they lacked U.S. social security numbers.

  • 4 weeks ago | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare

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Fisayo Okare
Fisayo Okare @fisvyo
30 May 25

RT @clarissaleon: On the last weekday of AAPI month, happy to share this Our City interview with the incredible Ava Chin who shows us how e…

Fisayo Okare
Fisayo Okare @fisvyo
29 May 25

RT @katie_honan: "He was at THE CITY a bit short of a year, deciding to leave when economic headwinds threatened layoffs and he did not wan…

Fisayo Okare
Fisayo Okare @fisvyo
5 May 25

RT @clarissaleon: 🚨 "I painted his room. I fixed it up for when he arrives. I bought him balloons." Ángel's father prepared for his son's d…