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Global Citizenship Parenting and Belonging

In my latest episode of The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast, I explore a question many parents carry:

What does it actually mean to raise a global citizen?

It’s often associated with travel, languages, or exposure.
But global citizenship is not something...

In the latest episode of The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast, I explore belonging and identity through my lived experience of growing up cross-cultural — born and raised in Norway to Palestinian parents.

What does it mean to be asked where you are “really” from?
How does identity develop when it is ...

From The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast

This post marks the beginning of a new ten-episode series exploring global citizenship as a daily practice, not as a concept to master, but as something we return to again and again.

Global citizenship shapes how we show up in the world — in our relationshi...

As we enter a season filled with messages about gratitude, I want to explore a version of gratitude that goes deeper — the kind rooted in global citizenship, awareness, and responsibility.

Not the Instagram kind.
Not the kind that bypasses discomfort or silences injustice.
But the kind that expands...

Raising children with a global mindset is one of the most meaningful things we can do.

It’s about nurturing kids who care about people and the planet - who recognize diversity as a strength, fairness as a responsibility, and sustainability as a way of living.

Below are three ways (plus one specia...

I often talk about belonging — what it means, how it changes, and why it matters.
In last week’s episode of The Everyday Global Citizen Podcast, I reflect on how the question “Where are you really from?” shaped my own sense of belonging growing up in Norway.

 🌍 Growing Up In-Between

 As you mig...

“Where are you really from?” is a question I’ve heard more times than I can count. It’s almost always asked right after I say I’m from Bergen. The implication is clear: Bergen isn’t an acceptable answer for someone who looks like me.

As a cross-cultural person with visible difference - olive toned...

For most of my life, I called myself multicultural. It was the term people used to describe me. It was the term I used to describe myself. But deep down, it never felt quite right.

 
I grew up speaking multiple languages, navigating both Norwegian and Palestinian cultural codes, and living with val...