I'm very happy to have Ms. Amanda Bate as my guest on the podcast. Amanda was born in the US to Cameroonian parents and grew up in Africa. Amanda is also the founder of The Black Expat website. The Black Expat website spotlights collected black expat experiences that are directly related to a black expat's survival while living abroad. Also, parts of the website talks about issues that relate to raising children abroad and, in particular issues related to what Third Culture Kids (TCKs) face while living abroad and upon touching down in the nation of their parents birth. Currently Amanda lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she works in educational consulting as a director of a college access program that assist low income and underrepresented minority students regarding their postsecondary education plans. Amanda explains how she became an advocate of studying abroad and why she's working to make studying abroad more accessible to minority students who normally wouldn't even think about an educational experience beyond their nation's border. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Black Expat: Website: http://www.theblackexpat.com Twitter: @theblackexpat Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblackexpat/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/BlackExpat/ Read The Wall Street Journal's interview: A Voice For Global Nomads Of Color Additional links of interest: The Difference between Expats and Immigrants? It's Passports, Not Race 'Expat' Under Fire: The Word is Not Racist, Argues a Global Nomad Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants? THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THIS EPISODE! Thank you very much for taking the time to share this podcast. If you have any feedback, please leave a note in the comments section below or leave a voice message via our SpeakPipe page. We would love to hear from you! If you enjoyed this please share it with your friends, family and co-workers by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Please subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates of our podcasts. And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get. Please help us spread the word and leave a review in iTunes by clicking here! Thank you for listening to Four Seas One Family. We are all the same and at the same time uniquely different!