National Adoption Awareness Month: Voices from the Triad

Nov 17

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and we're taking this opportunity to share the platforms of those who so generously offer their voices, insights, stories, and adoption experiences online through various mediums including social media, art, writing, poetry, podcasts, and community organizations. The following accounts offer diverse perspectives from different members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. They each raise awareness in some capacity to the intersections of adoption and race, identity, legal reform, inclusion, ethics, parenting, and mental health.

Torie DiMartile: Speaker, Writer, Student, Adoptee

Brandi Ebersole: Open Adoption and Foster Care Advocate, Writer, Adoptee

Sharday Renee: Storyteller, Writer, Founder of Tapestory Co, Adoptee

Cam Lee Small: Therapist, Adoption Reform and Racial Justice Advocate, Adoptee

Angela Tucker: Writer, Speaker, Podcaster, Author, Documentarian, Adoptee

Hannah Jackson Matthews: Digital Creator, Transracial Adoptee Educator

Ashley Mitchell: Speaker, Adoption Law Reform, Founder of Lifetime Healing Foundation, Birth Mom

Courtney Tierra: Educator, Author, Founder of The Worthy Reminders, Birth Mom

Kelsey: Policy Reform Advocate, Podcaster, Birth Mom

Sarah Schmidth: Writer, Adoption Education, Birth Mom

Laura Kelley: Advocate, Creative, Adoptive Parent

Heather Avis: Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Adoptive Parent