There would be many days that I would come home so excited from a great day at work only to be greeted by anger, resentment, and depression.

It was not by mistake that I was named after my clan, “Nyakach.” My parents must have had great hopes for me when they gave me this name...

My childhood was spent in the small city of Manizales, Colombia. As the youngest in the family, my parents were quite overprotective...