5. On Your Way to Something Great with Ceniya Palmer-Baumann

2021-05-16

This week's episode of Being All of Us is special for me (they're all special, but you know what I mean!). I catch up with a high school friend, Ceniya Palmer-Baumann, to hear about her story and where the world has taken her since our time together in Newport News, Virginia. But we also spend a lot of time talking about her upbringing and childhood in a military family and a biracial, multiethnic family, and how it's important to see one another for who we are and understand we can't just gloss over differences. I hope you'll find this to be a special episode too. We talk...

This week's episode of Being All of Us is special for me (they're all special, but you know what I mean!). I catch up with a high school friend, Ceniya Palmer-Baumann, to hear about her story and where the world has taken her since our time together in Newport News, Virginia. But we also spend a lot of time talking about her upbringing and childhood in a military family and a biracial, multiethnic family, and how it's important to see one another for who we are and understand we can't just gloss over differences. I hope you'll find this to be a special episode too.

We talk about:

3:45 minute mark – Ceniya’s journey
11:30 – The importance of family ties
17:00 – The transiency of military towns and families and moving around as a child
24:00 – Growing up in the south as a lonely child
29:00 – Leaving a name behind and growing into an old name
38:00 – Seeking a fit and being an oddball, and finding a place between different groups and identities
58:00 – The limits of “colorblindness”