For a Third Culture Kid (TCK) like me, there is no simple answer to the question, “Where do you come from?”; Like, I come from Japan, but I don’t think that that answer solely would define my [...]
Sometimes I don’t like sharing opinions. I don’t like putting myself in a position where someone might not accept me. I know what you’re thinking: “Pff! Why should you care? It’s impossible for [...]
Living the life of a globally working professional and a wanderlust kid taught me one thing and that is that the only constant in the world is change. Change is never finished. Change enables [...]
Growing up as a third culture kid (TCK) had its perks – the traveling, sightseeing, cross-continental relationships, etc. I was unique growing up, a Latina from El Salvador, in the midst of [...]
Can you tell us about your background? I was born on November 1, 1991 in Liberia, West Africa. My survival was quite miraculous as it was just around the beginning of Liberia’s civil war. With [...]
Third Culture Kid; I didn’t know that’s what I was classified as until about a year or so ago. I hate to go down the “woe is me” road, as I’m extremely privileged in how I live and my upbringing. [...]
You know that 12.3 million you keep hearing about? That’s me, Mr. educated, yet unemployed – or at least it was. I (still) am also what New York Times writer Robin Marantez Henig called one of [...]
One of my favorite things to do is to share TCK stories. Another is letting TCKs that had no idea that they were TCKs know who they are. One of our co-founders Sasha Reed had such an experience [...]
I consider myself a TCA, a Third Culture Adult. I’ve lived a third of my life in four countries and have learned to blend in, giving hugs, two- or three-cheek kisses in greeting, keeping my hand [...]