Global citizens experience cultural freedom—they draw from their home culture but they also absorb experiences from many cultures and backgrounds. They are not cultural tourists who just travel the world and go shopping. They embrace discomfort and immerse themselves in different cultures. The journey to become a global citizen often includes personal sacrifice and pain. [...]

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism. When I began my journey about twelve years ago, I had no clue what was in store for me. Leaving my family and friends to build a life in America, I simply packed a suitcase, a camera [...]

This is that time of the year when we get a chance to reflect back on the year and be grateful for things in our lives. When I started my Diversity and Advancement Of Women journey in 2007, I was clueless of how things will shape out. I knew I loved this work and this [...]

We all have a name or a face come to mind, as we listen to the word – CONTROL FREAK. Here is a newsflash, have you looked in the mirror…Do you trust people? Most recently, I have spoken to many women who believe that the real opportunity for women’s pay parity has arrived. Finally, we [...]

Rohit Bhargava the award winning author of Personality Not Included and a founding member of the 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy, has compiled an ebook to inspire female entrepreneurs and business women pf all ages to reach higher and to achieve more. How many visionary women have you been inspired by? Most of us [...]

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) Recession gives us a sense of scarcity – scarcity of jobs, scarcity of resources and scarcity of [...]

A woman of diverse talent, Sarah Jones, shows us to what extent we self-construct. She is undoubtedly a woman who takes reinvention to the NEXT level. She is a one women show – and is an example of how multicultural we are…. And then she ties it up to show In our Diversity – we [...]

There is always something special about your first book. I shared the book with a friend of mine and she said, ” I know it’s like letting somebody hold your first born!”. Why I wrote this book? By 2010, Twitter will have roughly 18 million registered users. What does this have to do with diversity [...]

Make Your Ending A Good One Senator Edward Kennedy knew he was dying of cancer. Though he was the only of the four Kennedy brothers to live into old age, he was clear his end was near. So, according to a piece in the New York Times, he spent his final days enjoying long dinners [...]

Tricia Rose in her Keynote at the Multicultural women national conference said, “Diversity is a replacement word to structural inequities in distribution to resources or access to it”. She proposed that it is important to acknowledge the structural inequities and to adjust it. I was in agreement to her thoughts on how problem solving capacities [...]