Kimberly
Kimberly McKee is an assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Grand Valley State University. She received her Ph.D in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State...
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Past contributor. Jenna Cook graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Yale University in May 2014 with a B.A. in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Her senior essay, “Constructing...
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Maureen McCauley Evans is a writer, editor, and artist living in Seattle. She is the parent through adoption of 4 now-young adults, sons adopted as babies from the US and twin daughters adopted at 6...
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Lisa Brimmer is a writer, performance poet and community organizer.. She is a two time Givens Foundation for African American Literature fellow and has received a Playwrights’ Center Many Voices...
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Daniel Drennan (pen name: Daniel Ibn Zayd) was born in Lebanon and adopted at the age of two months. He grew up in Iran, Australia, and finally the United States, with four years lived in France as...
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Sharon Heit is a photographer from Chicago, IL who moved to Seoul in 2012 to study Korean language. She was adopted with her twin sister to the US at the age of four. She now works as the Production...
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kim thompson was born in Seoul in 1975 and was adopted to the States 6 months later in 1976. She grew up in S. Florida, wandered around Eastern and Western Europe for 8 years, lived in Minneapolis, MN,...
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Past contributor. Ollin Montes is a Macalester College student navigating the complexities, perks and woes of pseudo-adulthood. He is a proud second generation Mexican-American and loud stigmafighter...
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Helen Derechin is an 18 year old Chinese adoptee. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota but currently attends Wagner College in New York City as a freshman. Helen was adopted at 13 months from Jiangsu...
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Juliet Forde entered foster care when she was 3 months old and, after living in 15 different homes, she aged out of the system when she was 21. Currently a foster care advocate, she began facilitating...
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