Megan Norton (Intercultural Transitions Director) is a genius with TCKs.  She has done the Foreign Service Youth returning to the US Seminar for the children of US diplomats for the last few years.  She has done an amazing job and won praise from the kids as well as parents!  She is well versed in TCK issues and knows how to effectively reach kids and help them process their experiences.

— Jonette Cahoon Vaughan; Executive Director, Foreign Service Youth Foundation

Megan Norton (Intercultural Transitions Director) is delightful, wise and insightful. Her expertise on the topic of Third Culture Kids can be seen through her years of collaboration with multiple TCK organizations and in the intentional experience she brings to each conversation. She offers perceptive encouragement for young Third Culture Kids struggling to understand their belonging within the communities they live in. I can’t recommend her or her work highly enough. 

— Breanne Eckman; Founder, TRUTH4TCKs

“Our experience with Intercultural Transitions was really fantastic.  I attended the XXXXXXX University meeting last year, so it was interesting to compare my impressions and also the feedback I received from parents and students about the two different presentations. Although I enjoyed the XXXXXX University presentation, several students complained that the XXXXX University visit was not relevant to them, that it was too general without any new info, that they just felt talked at.  After this TCK workshop with Intercultural Transitions, however, students were energized to actually make some changes and explore opportunities.  I was shocked to catch my own 10th grader exploring colleges and downloading an SAT prep app for his phone—I’ve been bugging him about this stuff for a year now without results, but now he is talking about it and mentioned that he wishes he’d had a chance to hear more from the presenters because he has so many more questions now (and that is spurring him to do his own research).  His reaction to the XXXXXX University visit last year was a shrugged shoulder. From parents, we have been inundated with emails and inquiries about whether they can count on this group coming back next year.  There were worries that the audience wasn’t big enough (one school offered the workshop only to 12th graders and parents of 9-11th graders were very disappointed). Personally, I was impressed by the professionalism and flexibility of Intercultural Transition’s team.  As one example, when they found that the parent audience at one school was made primarily of primary school parents (instead of the advertised audience of parents of 11/12 graders), they completely changed their presentation from one that was college-focused, to one that was focused on third-culture kids more generally.  It was great and much more useful for the audience than the original presentation would have been.  Another point that was especially impressive was how careful they were to be supportive of the school counselors and programs.  They were clearly not trying to sow dissatisfaction or create problems for the schools—instead, they offered support and tools for parents to better utilize resources available.  Finally, I was impressed by how important their message is for parents who may not (in fact, probably usually are not) aware of the unique challenges and differences their children will face when applying for and transitioning to college compared with peers who grow up in the United States. I cannot recommend their program strongly enough and hope that there will be a way to incorporate these visits more formally…..”

— Community Liaison Officer; U.S. Department of State

“I am the mother of 10th grade twins at Pechersk School International in Kyiv, Ukraine. Last week we attended a Third Culture Kids (TCK) workshop/brownbag here at the Embassy that was excellent. I wanted to write to encourage the State Department’ Overseas Schools office to organize more such workshops for families with children in high school. We received so much useful information, but I felt like it was just the tip of the iceberg. As overseas parents/families, we only have limited time for our kids to visit colleges in the U.S. before they have to make a decision on where to apply, and the workshop helped us to narrow the field, or at least know what kinds of questions to ask to narrow the field of schools to visit. All to say, the CLO did a great job in bringing this team to Kyiv and I encourage Overseas Schools to do more such workshops for us. Thanks!”

— Mother of TCK U.S. Foreign Service TCK teen

Your presentation on helping TCKs transition to university was so helpful! In fact, I would like to submit a proposal to speak about it at the CIS-EARCOS conference in Bangkok in September. I’m a university counsellor at an international school and a TCK myself. Discovering that there are universities out there that distinguish between international student and TCK was a real ‘ah ha’ moment for me. I think this is so important and I hope that by presenting on it at this conference more universities will think to do it.

— Families in Global Transition Conference 2019 University Counselor; Bangkok, Thailand

With the rising importance of mental health for Third Culture Kids, Megan Norton (Intercultural Transitions Director) utilizes her own upbringing growing up and living in 10 countries combined with her expertise as an intercultural trainer, experience with international education and passion in hearing the story of global citizens to put herself in other's shoes, which makes her the perfect empathetic listening ear and consultant to those going through the mental struggle of this complex life and community.

— Calvin Karuniawan Widjaja; TCK advocate, producer and host of Global CKtizens