Climate Justice: The Future is Intersectional
Asian elephants Snow leopards Black-footed ferrets Giant pandas Polar bears Human beings What do all of these have in common?…
Jane Goodall: Raising a TCK During Her Influential Animal Research in Tanzania
Jane Goodall spent decades researching in Gombe, Tanzania not only leaving her mark in the scientific community, but also raising…
The Powerful Global Impact of Yes Theory
Yes Theory’s YouTube channel has over six million followers worldwide. Their mission is to “seek discomfort.” The channel produces daring…
TCK U.S. Politician John Kerry: How His Background Contributed to His Political Success
John Kerry’s Background: Childhood Into Adulthood John Kerry’s background has substantially influenced his career and made life as a politician…
TCK Cultural Identity Discovered through Art – Part 1 of 3
Third culture kids (TCKs) are people that have spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their parents’…
Preserving Cultural Narratives with Multimedia
Kara Walker is among one of the most prolific and complex American artists of her generation. She has gained national…
Kobe Bryant’s TCK Background Made Him a Basketball G.O.A.T.
Celebrities from all over the world face challenges in their everyday life, but Kobe Bryant used his TCK background to propel him into a basketball G.O.A.T.
Gun Violence, Race, and the Power of Music
The music video “This Is America” sparked a lot of conversation about gun control, police brutality, and racism.
How This Translator Uses Language to Connect with Different Cultures
My name is Andrea Bazoin, and I am a translator. In high school, I used my then-limited Spanish to translate for the Central American immigrants who came to my checkout line at the grocery store in our small Nebraska town. Interpreting their “Cuanto cuesta?” was helpful, but I knew what I was really translating was a message of welcome.
Ana Mendieta: A Champion for CCKs
Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.