Interested in helping recent immigrants learn English or gain their citizenship? Want to practice a foreign language in a real-world setting? Check out our immigrant/ refuge sites!

Centro Romero Adults

• Area: Rogers Park
• Issues: Help teach ESL and citizenship classes by doing individual tutoring and helping the clients.
• Site leaders: Molly Hoisington (mollyhoisington2007@u.northwestern.edu), Karina Martinez-Carter (K-Martinez-Carter@northwestern.edu) and John Lee (johnlee2010@u.northwestern.edu)

Heartland Alliance

• Area: Uptown
• Issues: Volunteers teach ESL and play with the children, who are mostly non-English speaking and non-American, offering a unique mentoring and tutoring experience.
• Site leaders: Laura Reid (laurareid2007@u.northwestern.edu) and Sinead Flood (sineadflood2012@u.northwestern.edu)

Chinese Mutual Aid

• Area: Uptown/Argyle
• Issues: Tutors for adults teach reading and writing, while tutors for children work in the Family Literacy Program and help children with their assignments.
• Site leaders: Jessie Chen (jessiechen2008@u.northwestern.edu) and Alice Feng (alicefeng2007@u.northwestern.edu)

Centro Romero After-school

• Area: Rogers Park
• Issues: Tutor kids from ages 7–12. Volunteers help with homework and play games afterward.
• Site leaders: Jenny Pan (jennypan2010@u.northwestern.edu) and Rebecca Ramos (r-ramos@u.northwestern.edu) and Stephen Lechter (stevenlechter2007@u.northwestern.edu)

South East Asia Center

• Area: Rogers Park
• Issues: Help with homework and play with grade-school children in this after-school center for children of recent immigrants.
• Site leaders: Manisha Bhatia (manishabhatia2012@u.northwestern.edu) and Connie Chang (conniechang2012@u.northwestern.edu)