This article is part of Times Opinion’s Giving Guide 2024. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” Lazarus’s oft-repeated lines go. Kerry Brodie, the executive director of Emma’s Torch, told me that since she founded the nonprofit in 2016, it has trained over 500 students from 60 different countries, and she sees economic empowerment as its driving force. “When we welcome in new people to our communities, it’s about helping them build lives of their own choosing,” she said.

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Persons: Read, Kathleen Kingsbury, Emma Lazarus, Kerry Brodie, ” Organizations: Liberty Locations: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, United States