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The British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer and activist Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam MBE, stage name M.I.A., was born in Hounslow, United Kingdom. As an artist, she doesn’t shy away from including her past as a Sri Lankan refugee and beliefs in […]

Music is a place where people share their life experiences and the emotions they feel at a certain time and place. Music is one of the many fields that a Third Culture Kid (TCK) can use to express their life story and journey. […]

Lelia Janah knew something most of us didn’t when it comes to sourcing top tech talent, and she bet on her idea with all her heart. If you had to guess, what are the odds that someone living in Kibera, […]

Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor has defined her career through lingual mobility similar to how her childhood was defined by cultural mobility. Spektor was born in the Soviet Union to Russian-Jewish artists Ilya and Bella Spektor in 1980. According to All Music, […]

Claudia Rankine is a United States-based poet who was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Rankine has published many books, poems and is even working on some plays. Her work aims to bring light to the injustices that Black and Brown people […]

As mentioned in part one of this series, “Who is United States Representative Ilhan Omar?-Part 1 of 3,” Illhan Omar’s story in the United States started with the Somali civil war. From refugee to the U.S. Senate: she became a […]

Most of us resist change. We resist change in situations; we resist change in people. Even if we want them to change, we still resist change instead of embracing change. But, change is the very nature of life. It is […]

Gustavo Nader  The three part series continues as we explore the experiences of language teachers and professors whose hidden diversity has helped them better understand the world around them, and make them even greater educators.  For part two of the […]