Editorial Board and MKB Administrators - Multicultural Kid Blogs

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Supervising Editors

Maria of Bicultural Mama and Ilze of Let the Journey Begin (see below for full bios)

Editorial Board

Leanna is a stay at home mother to two sweet, funny, rambunctious boys and their adorable baby sister. She draws inspiration from the Writings of the Bahá'í Faith and tries to raise her Monkeys in a fun, spiritual, loving environment. She and her husband, who is from Costa Rica, are raising their boys to be bilingual and bicultural but more importantly to be "world citizens." Leanna is the co-founder of Bahá'í Mom Blogs and founder of Multicultural Kid Blogs.

MaryAnne

MaryAnne was raised in the United States, Guatemala, France, Bolivia, and Austria. Her first daughter was born in Scotland, and she now lives with her husband and their four children in Silicon Valley, California. You can find MaryAnne writing about parenting, crafts, and education at Mama Smiles – Joyful Parenting.

Varya

Varya blogs at CreativeWorldOfVarya.Com (formerly known as LittleArtists.Blog.Com). She is a mom to 3 children, an early development specialist, a baby massage and perinatal fitness instructor, and a breastfeeding consultant. Varya has been living in China for the past 14 years working and raising her multicultural family.

Olga Mecking

Olga Mecking is a writer, journalist and translator. Her articles have been published in The BBC, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and many others. Her portfolio can be found at www.olgamecking.com. When not writing or thinking about wriitng, Olga can be found reading, drinking tea, and reading some more.

Frances

Frances is a Latina Mamá on a multicultural and bilingual journey. Shortly before her son turned 4 years old, she started blogging about discovering the world through his eyes, hence the name of her blog. She became passionate about teaching him to be bilingual, and biliterate. She writes about heritage, bilingualism, multiculturalism, children's book and global culture education with lots of hands-on activities and language learning ideas for kids.

She can be found musing at her blog Discovering the World Through My Son's Eyes or on Instagram her new favorite social media platform

Rita Rosenback

Rita Rosenback is the founder of the Multilingual Parenting site, author of “Bringing up a Bilingual Child” and a Family Language Coach helping multilingual families. She also gives talks and holds workshops for parents and teachers on the topic of bilingual children.

Annabelle Humanes

Former linguist. Maman to two little world citizens. Currently living in Germany (via the U.K., France and Portugal). I blog about life as a displaced multilingual mum.

Monica Olivera

Monica Olivera is a homeschooling mami of two and freelance education writer. Her website, MommyMaestra.com, shares resources for Latino parents who homeschool or have children in a traditional school system. Monica is also the co-founder of Latinas for Latino Lit and the L4LL Latino Children's Summer Reading Program.

Ilze Ievina

Ilze is a social researcher and an intercultural trainer, a mom and a blogger. Originally from the small Baltic country Latvia, her path of education brought her to Northern Germany where she met her future husband and decided to stay for a little longer.
Ilze blogs about her adventures in expat life, as well as trilingual and multicultural parenting at Let the Journey Begin.

Kali

Born and raised in Kansas City, Kali took Spanish in college and fell in love with it--especially after spending time studying in Costa Rica & Spain and volunteering in Peru. Once graduated, she began sharing her love of Spanish through her blog (www.fortheloveofspanish.com) and by teaching Spanish to local homeschool students. This year she embarks on her first year of homeschooling her own children with the goal of raising them and educating them bilingually.

Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett

Amanda “Miss Panda” is raising her children to be bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese. She has added Spanish to their family language adventure a couple of years ago. Amanda is a dynamic language instructor with over 15 years of teaching experience. She blogs at Miss Panda Chinese and shares Chinese language and culture resources with parents, educators, and homeschool families.

Bicultural Mama

Maria Adcock is the founder of BiculturalMama.com - a site covering culture, parenting, health, food, and travel. She is a first generation Chinese-American and corporate marketing professional turned freelance writer who lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Charu Chhitwal

Founder of KetchupMoms & Kidzlens. Freelance content creator who loves photography, travelling and everything about India. Award-winning copy-writer, HuffingtonPost Blogger, mom to twins- a boy and a girl.

Phoebe Thomas

Adult TCK expat since birth, putting down (shallow) roots in the South of France. Blogger, Traveller, Francophile, Mum to 2 bilingual, multicultural boys. Connect with me on my blog where I write about all of the above, also on FB, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram

Former Members of the Editorial Board

Founding Member: Giselle Shardlow of Kids Yoga Stories

Founding Member: Ute Limacher-Riebold of expatsincebirth.com

Former Supervising Editor: Jenny B of Spanish Playground

Former Supervising Editor: Linda of Hispanic Mama

Aysh of Jeddah Mom

Crystal of Castle View Academy

Amanda of Turning Dutch

Amanda of Miss Panda Chinese

Mariam of And Then We Moved To

Patricia of Our Whole Village

Kay of A Crafty Arab