third culture kid

Nadia Owusu is an author and Third Culture Kid (TCK) who has lived in five countries as a child. She reflects on her experiences and hardships in her memoir “Aftershocks.” Among us everyday are people who have survived and lived […]

Ahmed Ahmed is well-known for being an actor and stand up comedian throughout the United States but he also has an incredible culturally fluid background that influences his work. Being an American-Egyptian has shaped every single stand-up comedy set that […]

Background Thirty-eight-year-old Mo Farah was born in Somalia, where he lived for the first eight years of his life. He subsequently moved to Great Britain where he would grow up for the remainder of his adolescent life. The move to […]

What defines a TCK? Lynnie Wright was born in Liberia and moved to the United States in 8th grade. The cultures were vastly different. “I don’t even know how to explain it,” said Wright, a Third Culture Kid (TCK) at […]

Global Nomad artist Christine Rasmussen’s highly mobile upbringing shows in her paintings. She illustrates scenes that feel familiar but foreign all at the same time. Her focus is on the beauty of “the in-between,” or urban areas that are usually […]

Third culture kids (TCKs) are people that have spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their parents’ culture. Their home, host countries and experiences become the third culture. This can be a lot for anyone under the […]

Lilly Singh’s new late-night talk show advocates for representation in a white, male-dominated space.

Aidan Frazier is a U.S. Citizen out of water. He grew up in Yorkshire, Northern England, where he attended school, picked up a British accent and lived as a military B.R.A.T. until his father resigned. From the ages of 2-12, […]