My long-time friend Tyler is on a journey towards becoming a better person, exploring unconditional love and dealing with difficult emotions.

Half Australian, half Californian, my cousin Sam is a passionate elementary teacher who shares his experience with building up children's self esteem and freedom of expression in both countries, the changing yet lingering states of gender norms, sexuality, and acceptance, namely the strong association association between male educators and homosexuality, and national stereotypes.

Anthropologist and PhD candidate in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Burcu is a passionate, curious and non-conforming Turkish woman who moved from Istanbul to Seattle, USA, learned Arabic after 30, and expertly navigates cross-cultural love languages, perceptions of success, nationality, and social norms.

For more on her research, follow the link https://www.humanitarianisms.org/gozde-burcu-ege.html

Anthropologist and PhD candidate in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Burcu is a passionate, curious and non-conforming Turkish woman who moved from Istanbul to Seattle, USA, learned Arabic after 30, and expertly navigates cross-cultural love languages, perceptions of success, nationality, and social norms.

For more on her research, follow the link https://www.humanitarianisms.org/gozde-burcu-ege.html

To find out how you can help, please reach out to Burcu Ege via email [email protected]

Ripped apart from friends, family, safety, any possible positive relationship with her country and home, and life as she knew it, Sia shares with us her important and overlooked crisis of identity since the war and beyond.

In this part of the conversation, we explore her experiences traveling in the Balkans (our shared love for Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina!!) and Central Asia, cultural pressures, and her predictions about the future of Russian identity.

Ripped apart from friends, family, safety, any possible positive relationship with her country and home, and life as she knew it, Sia shares with us her important and overlooked crisis of identity since the war and beyond.

Fraternity brother, STEM student at a competitive American university, American with half Japanese, half German descent, Makoto is a well-spoken young man navigating hurdles on the path to finding and owning his true self.

Respect, national perceptions, misinterpretation, the good and bad of mixing cultures... 

World traveler with a lust for life and the people, perspectives and experiences to be found, my aunt Jodie Kammerer (from The Design Twins) shares her experiences in France and Morocco.

Young man and profound thinker from Syria, Abe shares his experiences with making the most of life in Istanbul, Turkey, fluidity of personality, life, and identity, the importance of honesty, having new experiences and helping others, the subjectivity of ‘good’, and filtering knowledge.