Home, Interrupted

Series produced by Feet in 2 Worlds

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Feet in 2 Worlds presents Home, Interrupted, a podcast series exploring how the climate crisis affects immigrants across the U.S., and how immigrant communities are finding new ways to deal with a warming planet.

Feet in 2 Worlds presents Home, Interrupted, a podcast series exploring how the climate crisis affects immigrants across the U.S., and how immigrant communities are finding new ways to deal with a warming planet. You’ll hear voices that are often overlooked in the climate crisis, including those who have been forced to make wrenching choices, as well as those who are leading the way to a more sustainable planet.

Home, Interrupted is produced and hosted by Iggy Monda, a Feet in 2 Worlds Editing Fellow. Contributing producers to the series include journalists who trace their roots to China, Mexico, Italy, India, and Sweden.


5 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: The playground at Corlears Complex in New York City on the Lower East Side, which has been particularly vulnerable to heat and flooding in recent years., Credit: Iggy Monda
Across New York City, workers are tearing out concrete and asphalt from schoolyards and  replacing them with rain-absorbing surfaces that are more ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Luis Marcos standing in front of the 310 acres in northeast Nebraska that the Maya community hopes will be theirs by the end of the year., Credit: Anja Nilsson
In America’s agricultural heartland, a small group of immigrant farmers look to ancient methods to help modern farming respond to the climate crisi...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 35:17
Caption: Maria Pineda, a former farmworker, in a community huerta in Apopka, Florida., Credit: Allison Salerno
Producer Allison Salerno reports on community organizations and scientists who are working with farmworkers in Florida to safeguard themselves from...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 25:21
Caption: Amit Shivprasad outside his home in Hollis, Queens. Shivprasad advocates for basement reform, and his community is prone to flooding. Despite previous floods, the area is still undesignated as a flood zone., Credit: Diana Cervantes
Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 31:45
Caption: Pamela Contreras Franco and her daughter Aitana pose for a photo after Hurricane Otis. In order to receive federal aid, they had to prove that they had been affected by the hurricane., Credit: Photo courtesy of Pamela Contreras Franco.
When Hurricane Otis devastated the resort city of Acapulco in October 2023, Mexican authorities struggled to respond to the disaster. Producer Gret...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 32:08