The Cross-Cultural Parenting Playbook

This book offers real-life stories, strategies and activities to help families raise cross-cultural kids. Based on interviews and lived experience, it explores how parents can use media to build strong cross-cultural identities, honor hybrid heritage, and navigate the joys and challenges of cross-cultural parenting.

Sangita Shresthova is a Czech-Nepalese media researcher with expertise in popular culture, transmedia and civic engagement. She grew up between Prague and Kathmandu and has since called many cities home. She currently lives in Los Angeles and works as an Associate Research Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the co-author of several books, including Transformative Media Pedagogies and Practicing Futures: The Civic Imagination Action Handbook. As a mother raising a multiracial, multilingual, cross-cultural child, her personal journey fuels her commitment to bridging cultural and social divides.