The document provides biographical information about an individual who had experiences living and studying in multiple countries from a young age. It describes periods spent in Slovakia, England, the United States, France, and Ghana for education and volunteer purposes. It also references concepts like third culture kids and includes statistics about traits common to those with globally mobile upbringings.

1. Gymnázium Golianova
Nitra, Slovakia
1999/2000

2. Third Culture Kid (TKC)
Term developed in the 1950s by by American sociologist and anthropologist Ruth Hill
Useem. More recently, American sociologist David C. Pollock developed the following
description for third culture kids:
A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her
developmental years outside the parents' culture. The TCK frequently builds
relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although
elements from each culture may be assimilated into the TCK's life experience, the sense
of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background.

3. BUNAC Work Abroad Program
Brighton, England
2002/2003
BUNAC’s Internship program in Britain
gives participants a once in a lifetime
opportunity to experience British life
and culture from the inside for up to 6
months.
2001/2002
Freshman Year of Studies
Piedmont College
Demorest, GA
History of Early Civilizations
Theology

4. American University of Paris, France
2004 – 2007
Delivering Welcoming Speech in August of 2006
With the Dean of Students and College President
Majored in European Cultural Studies with a
Philosophy Concentration, and Comparative
Literature minor.
Editor-in-Chief of Core, 2005 – 2006
AUP’s Humanities Publication
Vice President of the Student Government
Association
2006 -2007
AUP Publications Team, 2005/2006: Students from
Israel, Ivory Coast, Turkey, France, and the United
States. Fellow team member, Mitch, was also a
Rotary International Exchange Student, and worked
with Michelle as President of the Student Body their
following year at AUP.

5. Education Without Borders is a biennial international student conference creating networks
across cultures in order to understand, and generate solutions for some of the world's
greatest challenges. This is achieved by engaging the world's most innovative students and
leaders of business, technology, education, and the humanitarian sector in a collaborative
forum that culminates with commitment to action. (http://ewb.hct.ac.ae)

6. Mission Trip
February 2011
Ghana
Word Alive Mission
Orphanage & School

7. Facebook application: Friend Map
Using the different locations of a Facebook user’s friends, a map is generated creating
relationship lines between the user and their global network.
The below map represents a North American college graduate.

8. Third Culture Kid stats (all from International Schools Services ):
•TCKs are highly linguistically adept
•TCKs are 4 times as likely as non-TCKs to earn a bachelor's degree (81% vs 21%)
•44% earned undergraduate degrees after the age of 22.

9. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you
can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra
colors. And the people there see you differently, too.”
Terry Pratchett, “A Hat Full of Sky”