HeyJaredOnce Upon A Time...In Adopteeland
Through an audio drama and episodes of thought-provoking conversations, the listening audience can learn some of the issues faced by those affected by relinquishment and adoption.
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302. Aimee Seiff Christian: "The Other Daughter in the Anthology of Relative Strangers" (opens the original)
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Aimee Seiff Christian writes memoir and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, Pidgeonholes, Atticus Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She is a contributing writer to Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship. She is a writing instructor and developmental editor and teaches memoir and creative nonfiction at GrubStreet and privately. She is currently w
301. Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao: "Long Views on Adoption Helps Our Community" (opens the original)
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Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D., LCSW, LMFT is a returning guest. She was the Founder and CEO of Center for Family Connections, Inc. in Cambridge and New York, Founder and Director of Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training, PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training, and Pavao Consulting and Coaching. Dr. Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally. She is a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and she has consulted to various public and priv
300. Elizabeth Barbour: “Navigating the Rollercoaster of Adoption Reunion with Grace” (opens the original)
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Elizabeth Barbour. M.Ed. is an adoptee and adoptive mom with 27 years of reunion experience. In 1999, she found her birth mom, birth dad and eleven brothers and sisters. An adoption reunion coach, speaker and author of two books, she’s currently writing her third about building healthy relationships in adoption reunions. Elizabeth helps people find grace and grounding amidst the grief and complexity of the reunion process through self-care, storytelling, and ritual. She lives in Asheville, North
299. Gretchen Sisson: "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (opens the original)
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Gretchen Sisson, PhD, is a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States. She is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, part of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research examining adoption decision-making after abortion denial (as part of The Turnaway Study) was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health from Justices Breyer, Kagan, and
298. Diana Kayla Hochberg: "Connected: Finding My Truth" (opens the original)
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Diana Kayla Hochberg is the author of Connected: Finding My Truth and a late-discovery Black Market Baby. Born in Montreal during the Baby Scoop Era and brought to the United States as an infant, Diana spent decades believing the story she had been told about her beginnings. Then, at thirty-eight years old, she uncovered a life-changing truth: there were no adoption papers, she had never been legally adopted, and the birth certificate she had lived with was false. It took nearly three decades of
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