cross cultural

Even though Iranian Armenian American Pauline Yeghnazar Peck’s parents both spoke English when they emigrated with her from Iran to the United States, she still had to act as a form of “social translator” while growing up.

“Epinephrine” is a film that follows a biracial architecture student as she experiences microaggressions in her day-to-day life.

Nikita Gupta is the founder of Growing Up Gupta, a digital lifestyle brand and community platform dedicated to multicultural/South Asian interracial families, cross-cultural relationships and global parenting resources.

Yara Shahidi is a bicultural woman of many talents: actor, storyteller, business entrepreneur, activist and global brand ambassador.

Urmi Hossain grew up between two worlds — Bengali and Italian — where love and relationships were not just different in each culture, but at times even opposing.

For Guatemalan-born, cross-cultural singer-songwriter David Lindes, moving to the U.S.A. at 9 years old wasn’t the picnic he thought it would be.

Kevin Olusola, one-fifth of the Grammy-winning a capella group Pentatonix, says he’s felt “misunderstood” his whole life.

“Ultimate Bias” is a short film touring the festival circuit this year about multi-ethnic students attending a Japanese immersion school in Northern Virginia, U.S.A. that hopes to educate and spotlight how unconscious bias happens based upon how someone looks, versus who they are inside.