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Uncovering Hidden Identity
Episode 16
Lynn Grubb is a closed-era Illinois adoptee and parent by marriage, birth and adoption. She is the editor of "The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Sh…
3 years, 9 months ago
Taking the Stigma out of Adoption
Episode 15
Jeff Forney was born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay town of Moraga, CA.
A photographer based in Los Angeles, he has been working on a do…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Complexity of Poverty and International Adoption
Episode 14
Lenore Paletta Hiller is an international adoptee born in Southern Italy in the mid-1960's. She lived with her birth mother for the first five months…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Daughter Connects with her Father
Episode 13
After being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state, and adopted out of foster care at age 4, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert (aka bi…
3 years, 10 months ago
A DNA Test Changed his Life
Episode 12
Michael Knox was adopted in 1961 in Illinois. He was raised with two younger sisters, one adopted and one bio. He moved to Southern California when h…
3 years, 11 months ago
Finding a Sense of Self
Episode 11
Carolina Khan is a transnational adoptee from Palmira, Colombia. As early as she can recall, she has always been informed of her adoption that took p…
3 years, 11 months ago
Better Late than Never
Episode 10
Adopted at birth, Edward Di Gangi was born and raised in New York City. Although he knew for most of his life that he was adopted, it wasn’t until he…
4 years ago
An Adoptee Raised by an Adoptee
Episode 9
Beth Figuls is a technical writer and aspiring novelist/memoirist from Los Angeles. A Baby Scoop-era adoptee, she was raised by a father who was also…
4 years ago
A Transracial Adoptee Speaks his Truth
Episode 8
Matthew Charles is the host of "little did u know", an abolitionist podcast that seeks to reveal the precarity inherent in transracial/national adopt…
4 years, 1 month ago
The "Good" Adopted Child
Episode 7
Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner …
4 years, 1 month ago