Third Culture Kid (TCK)

In my last article I talked about how my mother adapted to the intricate hierarchy of the Expat life, and her adjustments to becoming an expat wife. It was a struggle for her to adapt to the social hierarchy of […]

“I’m not quite sure the exact age but when you’re 18 or 19 you’re required to serve the country. If you have any disabilities they’ll put you in a county service center but if not, if you’re a man they’ll […]

PROOF: Media For Social Justice “The real strategy around what we do with them, is really either to get people to have policy change, or attitude change, or education. In the Congo, for example, we sought to give women the […]

Recently, a large compilation of e-mails have found their way into my possession. They are a collection of e-mails which my mother and grandmother exchanged while we lived overseas. I have affectionately come to call them The Expat Diaries. In […]

PROOF: Media For Social Justice “Lots of the exhibitions we create, are real peoples voices and testimonies, and I think they’re very powerful and able to touch people in a way that anonymous articles don’t have the power to do.” – […]

I have known Ivan Ross for fifteen years; we grew up seemingly chasing each other around the world, starting in Malaysia, then to Egypt and crossing paths once again in Texas. This can happen quite a bit with TCKs, it […]

There comes a time in everyone’s life when you seek to discover how another human will fit into your life, if you want that, and how you might intertwine your future with theirs.   There are a lot of articles […]

Catching up with Katie Piner is always a privilege. I have known Katie for ten years, we met in Cairo, Egypt where we both went to the American school, and graduated beneath the Giza Pyramids.   Katie is a Third […]