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TCK Freddie Mercury and His Surprising Global Health Legacy
Influential Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury used his identity as a cross-cultural and bisexual man, and as a person living with HIV/AIDS to create change in the global community. Mercury was born in 1946 in Zanzibar, Tanzania to parents Bomi and […]
Human Rights Cinema Part 2: Human Rights Watch Annual Film Festival 2015
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2015 New York City, United States June 11- June 20 As discussed in Part I of this series- Human Right’s Cinema Part 1: The World’s First Human Rights Festival- The New York Human Rights Watch […]
Home: Embracing the New While Missing the Old
One of the things expats, missionaries and TCKs have in common is their ability to adore where they are, miss where they’re from and feel like they don’t fully belong anywhere — all at the same time.
Fear, Faith and Film, Part 1
Augusto Valverde and Alex Harz had never met one another before I introduced them this past June. They were both presenting their work at the Fifth-Annual SeriesFest, a Denver-based festival and marketplace dedicated to showcasing innovative episodic content from around the world.
Leveraging Technology for Good – a cross-cultural perspective
Technology and Influence – a cross-cultural perspective In today’s digital age, technology is both an influencer of our lives and a tool for influence. It unites us in ways that would have been impossible just a few short decades ago. […]
Poor Nations Suffer Most at Hands of Climate Change
September of 2017 will go down in history as a horrific month of natural catastrophes. Severe rains and a small cyclone in Zimbabwe killed 117 people, China was hit by severe flooding that killed at least 144, followed by more […]
Families in Global Transition (FIGT)’s Exciting 20th anniversary conference Keynote Lineup
Top experts and researchers in the globally mobile community will be headlining this year’s Families in Global Transition Conference to be held March 8-10, 2018 at the World Trade Center in The Hague, the Netherlands. The three prominent keynote speakers […]
How Tayo Rockson Uses TCK-ness to Uncover Identity
We learned so much from Adele Johnson in our previous article. She was open about her life and where she is now. Our next subject in the series is someone who has taken cultural experiences to a whole new level. […]