Ellen Mahoney is a textbook Third Culture Kid (‘TCK’). Born to American parents, she moved twice in the US before relocating to Japan aged seven, the result of her dad’s job at IBM. She moved back to the US for seventh through tenth grades and then to Singapore for 11th and 12th grades. At 18 she headed to Ohio for university.
She expected to navigate college well. She’d travelled the world, had a pair of New Yorkers for parents, and spoke perfect English. She’d lived in the US for a big chunk of middle and high school. But the transition to college was way rockier than she expected.
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