Editorial Board and MKB Administrators

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Hoping to spark a passion for adventure, a love of cultural differences, and a vision of global responsibility in kids through fun family travel. Co-author of “Family on the Loose: The Art of Traveling with Kids,” available on Amazon. Follow us on twitter @familyonloose and Instagram via FamilyOnTheLoose. Find us on Pinterest at https://www.pinterest.com/familyonloose/

Maria Adcock is the founder of BiculturalMama.com, a site covering culture, parenting, 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 young children.

Orana was born in Peru but lived in the US as a teenager and then Argentina. She grew up playing in art studios, inspired to be an artist herself. For ten years, she worked as a Makeup Artist, FX Artist and Hairdresser. After seven years in Lima, Orana and her husband decided it was time for a change and their small family moved to South East Asia. First stop Laos, then Bangkok, Phuket and Bali. Now they are in Sti Lanka and they travel around the area on a regular basis. Now that writing is part of her daily life, Orana started a blog about her family and their crazy little adventures.

Leena is the author of "Around the World in 80 Purees: Simple and Easy Recipes for Global Baby Food" (Quirk Books/Random House, 2016). The book and Leena's mission focuses on getting babies and children to eat diverse foods, flavors and ingredients from a young age, so as to raise an adventurous eater. She has written numerous articles on the subject of food and children and has been featured on several parenting websites and public radio. Leena is the mother of two hungry children, ages 7 and 4. Learn more at www.leenasaini.com.

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.