A Fireside Chat with Adoptees

Please join us for a Fireside Chat moderated by Angela Tucker.

Angela Tucker is the founder and Executive Director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society. Her forthcoming debut book: YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL: Stories of Race Identity, and Transracial Adoption, will be published in April, 2023 by Beacon Press. Over the past decade, she has mentored over 200 adoptees.

Our Fireside Guests are:

• Tajah, a 34-year-old Black, transracial adoptee that is not in contact with their adoptive family.
• Sheila, a 60-year-old same race anglo adoptee at birth. She searched for and met her birth mother.
• Sudha, a 19-year-old Nepalese transracial adoptees with two white mothers.
• Sarah, an African-Arab and Filipino, queer same-race adoptee from the Philippines.

You're welcome to come with questions for the guests. The Adoptee Mentoring Society has signed the Ethical Storytelling Pledge and works hard to ensure the guests don't leave feeling overexposed, used or harmed in any way. To ensure this our moderator carefully monitors all questions, answers and/or comments for the following:

• Does the story reinforce harmful stereotypes or stigmas about a social issue or the people who are affected by it?
• Do we have the person’s consent to tell their story, for this purpose and in this medium?
• Whose needs and desires are at the center of how the story is presented, the person whose story it is or the audience for the story?
• What will happen to the person after their story is told in this way? Could it cause them harm?

The suggested donation is $10. All donations benefit the work of the Adoptee Mentoring Society