Field Notes & Essays

Parenting Unpacked · Maternity Abroad · Marked · The Things Nobody Names · The Marketing Underdog Project

Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/27/26 Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/27/26

Identity Preservation Is the Next Intercultural Challenge Nobody Is Talking About Yet.

What if the hostility we are seeing toward migrants right now is not really about migrants at all? What if it is about identity?

Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/25/26 Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/25/26

The SIETAR España Congress 2026 in VAL Starts Today. Here Is the First Part of the Speech.

The congress starts tomorrow. The speech is ready.

Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/22/26 Jessica Gabrielzyk 6/22/26

I Had a Call With Ruth Van Reken. My Face Did the Thing: 🥴

I explained the demarketing strategy. It makes more sense the longer I talk about it. I am not sure I had enough time. And then we got to the SIETAR Valencia presentation and the conversation became something else entirely.

Jessica Gabrielzyk 4/19/26 Jessica Gabrielzyk 4/19/26

I Need to Sit Down for a Second.

Parenting Unpacked just received an endorsement from Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds. A defining moment for a book that gives language to the experience of parenting between cultures