My mother’s father’s family came over from Britain with the early, early boats coming across. My mother’s mother came from London when she was 10 with her family.

My parents met and married in the San Francisco Bay Area, a new and magical world. They had both lived through the war as children, and as young adults, the future in England looked bleak.

My grandma came from Syria on a ship and she used to tell us there was a small hole in the boat and they had to keep taking the water out with buckets.

I was born in China, moved to the US for school, then moved to Italy but always knew that I wanted to live in NYC

My father came to Cleveland from Karachi, Pakistan and promptly moved back

My mom, age 15 at the time, and her family left Hungary in 1945 with a few suitcases, as the communists were coming in

My mother grew up in Ipanema, and moved to New York at the age of 16 to pursue modeling

I was born in Ghana, West Africa

My father is an Italian immigrant, who moved to the United States in 1960

Looking back at my family’s journey, moving to the U.S. gave my mom, my sister, and I many opportunities that I think would have been harder to achieve if we stayed back home

I was born in Chile and raised in the United States, existing in a mental landscape in between

My family came to the US via the Middle Passage and the Holocaust

My mother's family immigrated from Ireland and England in the late 19th century

I celebrate my hybrid roots!

My mom's side of the family came to the United States from Switzerland in the 19th century

On my father's side, my grandfather's family were British and immigrated to the United States in the early-1700s

One side of my family came from Austria about four generations ago, I believe through Ellis Island

My parents came to the US as two full hippies who wanted to escape the rigidity of the Chinese social norms

Things were bad in Russia. In addition to the pogroms against Jews, the Russian Revolution and World War I were raging

My grandmother and grandfather split up so they wouldn’t both be imprisoned if caught, with one of them taking the plane and the other the train