Judee Blohm is a cross-cultural educator and training consultant in Washington, DC. Her clients include professional and educational organizations, Peace Corps and other development and service organizations, and the State Department. Judy is the author and editor of numerous training materials and has contributed chapters to various books in the intercultural field and the book Where in the World are You Going? (Intercultural Press, 1996.) Terri Lapinsky is a consultant with 30 years' experience in international and multicultural education and training, including holding positions in the Peace Corps as Program and Training Advisor for Africa, Country Director for Mozambique and Education Specialist. Her clients include the Jefferson County (West Virginia) Public Schools, New York City Public Schools and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Lapinsky lives in West Virginia.
Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience provides a
valuable resource for educators, volunteers, staff of youth
organizations and parents of young people attending schools with
the "kids" whose profiles are so sensitively shared.
Globalization's young faces and voices come alive in Kids Like
Me.
*Frances Hesselbein, former National Executive Director of the Girl
Scouts of the USA and Chairman of Leader to Leader Institute*
Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience is at once a
delightful, timely, and very serious contribution to intercultural
relations by two of the field’s most experienced practitioners.
Judee Blohm and Terri Lapinsky offer a creative, compassionate,
informative, and ultimately very practical treatment of a topic
that is already huge in its implications and only continues to grow
in significance. Teachers, students, and interculturalists alike
will benefit from this fine book.
*David J. Bachner, Ph.D., Scholar-in-Residence and Director,
Intercultural Management Institute, School of International
Service, American University*
This book is about understanding from the heart, understanding how
being "the other" feels, and helping people who have never
experienced that "otherness" to feel what being different feels
like – to feel the pain of being ostracized or being made to feel
different, as well as the gratitude and wonderment of coming to a
new place and being welcomed, accepted, and loved. Your book gives
teachers meaningful and accessible ways to help them explore these
complex themes with their students, to help them recognize the pain
inflicted by racism as well as recognize opportunities for
kindness, and valuing diversity.
*Elizabeth Macdonald, Director of the Writing Enhancement Program,
Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.*
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