Adoptees On

215 | Lee Herrick Today's guest is the exceptional poet Lee Herrick. If you haven't read any of Lee's work, today is the day to make a purchase at your favourite bookstore! Lee is a Korean adoptee and...

22 Apr 202255min

214 | Sunny Reed We are thrilled to talk with Sunny Reed while she's right in the midst of her Ph.D. program developing a new transformational framework for transnational adoption. We believe her focu...

15 Apr 202256min

213 | Kendra Mylnechuk Potter Guest host Lisette Austin speaks with Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, actor, yoga teacher, Native adoptee, and subject of the documentary, Daughter of Lost Bird. Kendra shares h...

8 Apr 202248min

212 | Mary Anna King Today the author of our April Adoptees On(ly) book club pick, B______s is with us! Mary Anna King was one of our very first podcast guests almost six years ago on season one. We d...

1 Apr 20221h

211 | Sullivan Summer Today's guest is the brilliant Sullivan Summer! Growing up as a black transracial adoptee with white adoptive parents, Sullivan was actively discouraged from identifying as black...

25 Mar 20221h 8min

210 | Stephanie Drenka Today's guest is the incredible Stephanie Drenka, and we say incredible because she saw the need for an online platform for underrepresented communities and went ahead and built...

18 Mar 202256min

209 | Dr. Hollee McGinnis The indomitable Dr. Hollee McGinnis is on the podcast today! Many of you have definitely heard of Hollee and her immense contributions to the adoptee community both academica...

11 Mar 20221h 4min

Guest host Lisette Austin interviews her close lifelong friend Iana, who helped Lisette find her birth father using genetic genealogy. Iana shares her adoption and reunion story, and what led her to "...

4 Mar 202257min