Nashville's New Americans Now Available
Tracing the Journeys of Our Immigrant Neighbors. A new work from Nashville author Sheri Lea Sellmeyer.
About the Author
Sheri Sellmeyer lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of Nashville’s New Americans, which profiles 39 immigrants from across the globe who make their home in Music City.
Sheri grew up in Lubbock, Texas, graduated from Baylor University, and worked as a reporter and freelance writer before joining a healthcare market research company, where she worked for 16 years.
News and Upcoming Events
If you couldn't make it to this event at the Tennessee State Museum follow this link to see the full video of Sheri with Nashville Public Radio's Cynthia Abrams, as well as two of the immigrants profiled in Nashville's New Americans — Ahmed Konteh of Sierra Leone and Loraine Segovia-Paz of Bolivia and Peru.
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How It All Started
Sheri has been writing the Nashville4All blog about immigrants in Nashville since 2017: She has profiled more than 70 immigrants from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Canada, Cuba and Australia.
"My husband and I are lucky to live in Nashville, a city rich with immigrants. Kurdish refugees have opened bakeries, restaurants and other businesses. Workers from Mexico are building our new office buildings and hotels. Scientists from many countries are doing critical research at Vanderbilt Medical School. The kids from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe have brought a whole new level of play to school soccer programs.