"My dad is a white French man of Jewish ancestry ; he was educated at Cornell. My mom, on the other hand, is a Black woman who was raised in a very poor area of Colombia. Her mom was a maid. They met when my dad was managing the Hilton Cartagena, Colombia . My mom came in for a job interview to help support her six brothers and sisters."
"One thing I admire about my parents is that they kept me in touch with both sides of the family. I lived in fancy hotels because that was a perk of my dad's job as a manager. Yet, each December, my mom would take me back to her poor neighborhood in Colombia, and I'd play with my cousins. As a kid, this was sometimes hard. I lived two lives. I would even have two birthday parties : one for my rich private school friends."
Kaky Daniel was born in Kuwait and lived in many countries because her father managed high‑end hotels, including New Orleans, France, Mexico, Colombia, and Canada. Her father is a white French man of Jewish ancestry educated at Cornell, and her mother is a Black Colombian woman raised in poverty whose mother worked as a maid. Her parents stayed connected to both family sides, exposing her to luxury hotel life and annual visits to her mother's poor neighborhood. She grew up balancing two social worlds, learning to accommodate others while remaining authentic and identifying with multiple countries.
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