Danielle Parker, Associate Director: United Voices for Newcomer Rights, Albuquerque New Mexico

Our guest today is Danielle Parker, the Associate Director of the community-based, non-profit organization United Voices
for Newcomer Rights (UVNR). UVNR cultivates educational, economic, cultural, social and physical and
mental health resources in partnership with newcomers to empower them to achieve system change
that supports their well-being and integration in their new communities. UVNR uses the inclusive, non-
stigmatized term “newcomers” to include anyone who has migrated to the U.S., including refugees,
immigrants, and asylum seekers, and to build solidary among the groups – recognizing the shared
experiences of migration and resettlement challenges.
Ms. Parker began her career journey when she was an undergraduate student at the University of New
Mexico and participated in the Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project - a collaborative program run
between UVNR and UNM that trains undergraduate and graduate students as paraprofessional
advocates and then pairs them with newcomer families to engage in 6 months of mutual learning,
mobilization of resources, and advocacy efforts.
On behalf of HealthCare UnTold we honor Danielle Parker and Unite Voices for Newcomer Rights for their incredible work on behalf of newcomers in the New Mexico.