About Elda

I have always been someone who lives between worlds.

Born to parents from two different Caribbean cultures, I learned early that two people can experience the exact same moment in completely different ways and that both of them can be right. That realization never left me. It became the lens through which I see everything.

I have lived in the Caribbean, Indiana, Seattle, London, and Texas. I have traveled to Morocco alone, taught children in dual language classrooms, raised two fully bilingual adults in a city far from where I grew up, and spent years sitting across from people who see the world differently than I do, trying to understand them and hoping they would try to understand me.

Out of all of that came InterCulturaling™. And out of InterCulturaling came the book.

I started this work because I kept seeing the same thing happen. People who genuinely meant well leaving each other confused, dismissed, or quietly written off. Not because anyone was unkind. But because we all walk through the world assuming everyone else was raised with the same invisible rulebook we were.

That assumption costs us more than we realize. It costs us relationships. It costs teams their best ideas. It costs organizations the full potential of the people they already have.

I have seen what happens when that changes. When people finally have the language and the understanding to make sense of what has been getting lost between them. When someone who has spent years feeling like an outsider in a room suddenly feels seen. When a team that has been talking past each other starts actually hearing each other.

That is what this work is about.

Through keynotes, workshops, and consulting, I help individuals and organizations understand the cultural dynamics shaping how they communicate, collaborate, and connect. Not with theory. With stories, real insights, and practical tools that make the invisible visible.

Because the people who can bridge different worlds are not a liability. They are exactly what any team, any organization, any community needs more of.

I am also the author of Interculturaling: For Those of Us Who Live Our Lives in Translation and the People Who Live It With Us, launching June 24, 2026, and Amtrak’s Best Kept Secret.

If something here resonates with you, I would love to connect.

A note about the logo.

The aperture at the center of the InterCulturaling™ logo is not accidental. A camera aperture opens to let in light and reveal what was previously invisible to the eye.

That is exactly what this work does.