The Global Chatter with Amanda Bates

Accra-based chef, Kuda Makoni shares his adjustment to the U.S. after arriving from his native Zimbabwe as a young person on the cusp of adulthood. He shares his personal journey of trying to find the right spaces to fit and how his eventual journey into the culinary world just changed everything.

In this episode, actress Georgia Goodman  discusses her early years growing up mixed race in Asia & Africa and managing the situations where people did not know how to categorize her. She also shares how her internationalism has helped her career and why she thinks the UK film industry is becoming more inclusive.

In this episode, we explore the life of therapist Anna Linde, a Brazilian adoptee who was raised in Sweden. Anna shares her experience of the struggle to understand her identity as a person of color and recounts what happened when she finally met her biological family. She also discusses her year of travel while worldschooling her children. 

In this episode, Yasmine Sadri discusses her highly mobile childhood growing up between Belgium and the U.S. She shares how her work with marginalized populations was partly inspired by her family’s own immigrant movement story. Yasmine also discusses how she's currently using her voice to speak on behalf of those who don’t have the platform or the freedom to do so.

Global Marketing & Communications expert Doni Aldinevshares her memories from her vibrant, highly mobile third culture kid childhood. She also discusses why she built Culturs and why her work especially focuses on the spaces that exist even in cross-cultural contexts.