My maternal grandparents immigrated from Barbados to the USA, settling in Harlem, New York, where my mother was born and raised.
My father is from Malmö and immigrated to the USA when my mother was pregnant with me. I grew up watching him develop a successful entrepreneurial business with my mom and enjoy life across the states we lived in.
It was also via visiting my father’s home country through my youth that the ‘seeds of sustainable mobility’ experience were planted, something I was fascinated to realize many decades later when living there as an adult with my children and husband.
Curiously, my mother’s home city is also a fascinating case for sustainable mobility within US American places and cultures.
I’ve always been fascinated by my mix of heritages and also know that the extraordinarily rich patchwork of immigrant stories is part of what makes USA so interesting.
I also know what it means to be a foreigner in a foreign place.
My family and I have lived in Poland since 2021 and I’m so grateful for the opportunities I’ve been afforded here including to pursue PhD research.
In these times especially, I believe it’s important to share stories, humanizing perspective.
I look forward to continuing to work internationally while also being thoughtful about my American ‘roots’.
I will always be interested in people’s stories, heritage, connection to place- routes AND roots, including in my work. I am excited to share more in the near future about the ‘residential narrative’ central in my research and look forward to continuing to center narrative, memory and stories in my research.
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My children & I in Stockholm (2018)-Annika