Global Culture
VIDEO: A Global Shift – Ruth VanReken on TCKs
Ruth VanReken is a second generation Third Culture Adult. Though she lives in Indiana, it was a long time before she called it home. Co-Author of Third Culture Kids: Growing up Among Worlds, and Author of Letters Never Sent, she […]
VIDEO: TCK Skills – Why Empathy Trumps Sympathy
TCKs are blessed with many gifts and many challenges in the unorthadox life that sometimes spans the globe leaving friends, family and memories in its wake. In this exquisitely animated short film, produced by RSA Shorts, Dr. Brené Brown reminds […]
My Liminal Life: An Artist Decodes a Biracial Identity
Grace grew up trying to balance between her black and white identities. She struggled to find an answer from her family and community, who could only see her as black or white, never both at the same time. She turned to […]
VIDEO: Beyond Color – Fauna Hodel’s Story – “So over the race card”
Fauna Hodel has dedicated her life to overcoming color. Her mission is to share “the color of love,” as she says, she’s “so over the race card.” A caucasian-American who was raised by a black family in segregation era Reno […]
Study Abroad: Tackling Brazil’s Racial Democracy
Brazil is not a country for beginners. Imagine living in a world where the differences we hold that make us individuals aren’t acknowledged or celebrated. A world where difference becomes obsolete and we can only be seen through one lens. […]
Military BRAT Deidre Hardin: The Unstoppable Tin Woman
Deidre Hardin’s journey mirrors the incredible jewelry she creates: intricate and layered spirals and turns decorated with spots of beauty together form something simply amazing. Hardin’s journey began in Lubbock, Texas, where she lived until age 5. As a military […]
Shaping our global response to terrorism
As the world struggles to cope with international terrorist attacks, U.S. lawmakers are fighting to put justice for these crimes in the hands of individual citizens. The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, […]
TCK Legacy Expert Michael Pollock: The Power of Storytelling
What’s in a story? How do you tell your own? More importantly, why do you tell it at all? When Third Culture Kid (TCK) expert and educator Michael Pollock, son of one of the originators of TCK research – David Pollock, […]

















