[1]The United States of America has been populated by multitudes, waves upon waves, of newcomers. Despite that, and despite being rejuvenated with each new arrival, creating a successful life as an outsider remains a huge challenge.
In this episode of Life In A New World [2], which airs today at 10:00 a.m. on Bronxnet (Cablevision ch. 68 – FIOS ch. 34) you will hear, in very pragmatic terms, how to overcome that.
Dr. Fiona Citkin [3] and Sergio Troncoso [4] are the two panelists who discussed the topic at this year’s Writing Across Borders, the international writing conference organized by the New York chapter of the National Writers Union [5].
Citkin and Troncoso couldn’t be better fit for the task, as they both confronted and succeeded against the same odds. Among the aspects they examined are:
– Which adjustments, innovations and insights led them to prosper in America by leveraging a foreign born background, for Citkin, and a bicultural-bilingual upbringing in Troncoso’s case.
– What are the challenges and the road blocks that can delay or prevent, foreign born people from building the life they want.
– How Sergio Troncoso distills into literature the experiences of his American life, both to inspire others and to expand on current literary narratives.
Life In A New World: Finding Success in the USA – Panel Conversation [6] from Tiziana Simona Rinaldi [7] on Vimeo [8].
Here is some biographical information on the panelists:
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Dr. Fiona Citkin
Dr. Fiona Citkin is a Ukraine born linguist and diversiculturalist who moved to the US in 1994 with a Fulbright scholarship to study languages and cultures at Kent State University, Ohio.
She is the founder and managing director of Expert Management Solutions Inc. [3], an intercultural competence consultancy, and the author or “Why and How Intercultural Competencies Can Help Organizations to Survive and Thrive.”
Fiona is also a columnist for the Huffington Post where she writes extensively about immigrant women’s success, the topic of her upcoming book titled “Cracking the Code: How Immigrant Women Leaders Achieve Success under Stress.”
Sergio Troncoso [4] was born in El Paso, Texas, and is now a fellow New Yorker. After graduating from Harvard College he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico, and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale University.
[10]Sergio was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s Alumni Hall of Fame and the Texas Institute of Letters. He is a resident faculty member of the Yale Writers’ Conference [11] in New Haven, Connecticut, and an instructor at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center [12] in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
He’s the author of five critically acclaimed books, including From This Wicked Patch of Dust, Last Tortillas and Other Stories and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. [4] In 2013 he co-edited Our Lost Borders: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence [4], to which Publishers Weekly referred as “and eye-opening collection of essays,” on how drug violence changed the bi-national, bi-cultural life along the US-Mexico border.
His latest release is the novel The Nature on Truth [4], by Arte Público Press.
For more on today’s panelists and to contact them visit www.hr-voyager.com [3]for Dr. Citkin and www.SergioTroncoso.com [4] for author Sergio Troncoso.
