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(In part 1, we find out about the ‘In-Between Club‘ podcast and how it came to be from its co-hosts, Yasuha Miura and Tomoka Mori.) Identity and roots of the ‘In-between Club‘ Growing up as TCKs/CCKs, many of us struggle […]

In an interview with Nicole Gilbert who has traveled through Costa Rica, the U.S.A., Italy, and Spain she had experienced some huge culture shocks. I was able to take the chance to sit down with her for a Q-and-A session […]

Nicole Gilbert is a 22-year-old U.S. citizen. She has lived in Costa Rica, the United States and Portugal all before the age of 18. She was born in Costa Rica. Gilbert has extended family members in the United States, so […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a true force of nature in the arts and attributes a great deal of his success to his parents’ cross-cultural influence.

The music video “This Is America” sparked a lot of conversation about gun control, police brutality, and racism.

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.

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.

2018-2019 NBA champion, Serge Ibaka, used his CCK upbringing to form a relentless motivation to play professional basketball and become a champion.