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Adapted Podcast
Adapted Podcast
Kaomi Lee

This is one of the pioneering podcasts on intercountry adoptees. Started in 2016, Adapted Podcast has interviewed more than 130 Korean intercountry... more

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Episodes

Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma

I sit down with Alicia Soon Hershey, 41, a Korean transnational adoptee now living in Barcelona. Soon Hershey was the... more

28 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees

Korean-American cultural anthropologist Eleana Kim talks about her research that went into the seminal imprint "Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees... more

16 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
Season 7, Episode 24: Geoffrey Winder - Fluidity in Identity

Geoffrey Winder (born Jong Ke-Bin) (he/him), 42, of Oakland, CA, shares some of his story as a queer Black Korean... more

03 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Season 7, Episode 23: Mirae KH Rhee - A Running Dragon

Mirae Kate-hers Rhee, 48, is a transnational, transcultural artist and adopted Korean who uses her socio-political artwork and performance to... more

20 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
Season 7, Episode 22: Sarah Harris - Camptowns and Belonging

Korean mixed-race adoptee Sarah Harris, 54, of Los Angeles, shares her story of visiting Korea and finding the place where... more

05 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Season 7, Episode 21: Delight Roberts - Marrying into a Korean-American Family

Korean adoptee Delight Roberts, 52, talks about marrying into a Korean-American family and the challenges and benefits that provided her.... more

21 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
Season 7, Episode 20: Wyatt Tuell - An Unconventional Family

Wyatt Tuell, 45, is a Korean-American adoptee who was raised outside Omaha, Nebraska with a Korean immigrant adoptive mother and... more

07 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Season 7, Episode 19: Kit Myers - Ghostly Kinship

Kit Myers, 42, is a transracial Hong Kong adoptee and assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race... more

24 May 2024 · 58 minutes
Season 7, Episode 18: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 2

I continue the conversation with Nik Nadeau, 36, a Korean adoptee who is in reunion with his Korean birth mother.... more

10 May 2024 · 37 minutes
Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother

Nik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing... more

26 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Season 7, Episode 16: Yukyeong Kim and Banet

Leader Yukyeong Kim and her group of neighbors and friends in Korea have been quietly and determinedly helping adoptees search... more

12 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
Season 7, Episode 15: JaeHee Chung-Sherman - You Don't Have to Be Resilient

Dr. JaeHee Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW, has centered her practice and research on decolonizing adoption and mental health for transracial and... more

29 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 29 minutes
Season 7, Episode 14: Leading an Adoptee Organization

Mia Quade Kristensen, 46, and Jannie Jung Westermann, 45, are on the board of the 34-year old Danish Korean adoptee... more

15 Mar 2024 · 47 minutes
Season 7, Episode 13: Adoptee Consciousness Model

I talk with Dr. JaeRan Kim and PhD student Grace Newton about the Adoptee Consciousness Model - a framework for... more

01 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Season 7 Episode 12: Thomas Haessly and the Imposter Within

Thomas Haessly, 40, has felt like an outsider ever since he can remember. Adopted from Korea by a Danish mother... more

16 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Rachel Forbes and the 4Fs (of Survival and Trauma Responses)

Rachel Forbes, LCSW, is a Korean-American adoptee with a psychotherapy practice in Connecticut where she specializes in transracial adoption and... more

02 Feb 2024 · 48 minutes
Season 7, Episode 10: Marissa Lichwick and Her Ghosts

Marissa Lichwick, 46, is a Korean adoptee and filmmaker, playwright and actor. She is using her past pain and trauma... more

19 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Season 7, Episode 9: Sara Docan-Morgan and Being In-Reunion

  Sara Docan-Morgan, PhD, 44, is a Korean adoptee and... more

05 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Season 7, Episode 8: Mia Haessly is Coexisting with Biological and Adoptive Family

Mia Haessly, 44, is a working mother and adopted Korean-American who has reunited with her Korean biological father. And while... more

22 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Season 7, Episode 7: Helen Noh, From Adoption Worker to Critic in South Korea

Helen Noh, PhD., is retiring next year after four decades working in child welfare in Korea, first as an adoption... more

08 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 33 minutes
Season 7, Episode 5: Robert Holloway and Menzeba Hasati Are Children of an Adoptee

Robert Holloway, 34, and Menzeba Hasati, 40, are siblings who are adult children of a Black Korean adoptee. Their mother... more

24 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Season 7, Episode 5: Matthew Rodriguez and Fact Versus Fiction

Korean adoptee Matthew Rodriguez, 43, is trying to make sense of his adoption story. For years, it's been clouded by... more

10 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 25 minutes
Season 7, Episode 4: Jenna Antoniewicz is Ready

Korean adoptee Jenna Antoniewicz, 40, has been on a whirlwind over the past 24 months since beginning to reckon her... more

27 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
Season 7, Episode 3: Hollee McGinnis and Her Soul Work

Hollee McGinnis, 51, is a Korean adoptee and founder of Also Known As, one of the longest continuously running international... more

13 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Season 7, Episode 2: Scar and Flower

Lee Herrick, 52, is a poet, author, educator and adoptee. He was adopted from South Korea to the San Francisco... more

29 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Season 7, Episode 1: Kimberly McKee and Asian Adoptee Festishization

Dr. Kimberly McKee, 39, currently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, is a critical adoption studies... more

17 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Season 6, Episode 21: Randy Walker and Finding Self-Worth

Imagine a story told to you from childhood, that your biological mother died and your biological father decided to relinquish... more

13 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Season 6, Episode 20: Sara Jones Was Marked By Love

Sara Jones isn't sure whether she's 48 or 49. That's because the circumstances surrounding her relinquishment are still a bit... more

23 May 2023 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Season 6, Episode 19: Eric Poole and His New Hope

Eric Poole, 55, continues his conversation in this second-part of a two-part interview. In this episode, we follow his adoption... more

08 May 2023 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Season 6, Episode 18: Eric Poole is the Boy from Uijeongbu

Eric Poole, 55, is a transracially adopted Black Korean who has come a long way from his early days as... more

25 Apr 2023 · 59 minutes
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Lee Herrick, 52, is a poet, author, educator and adoptee. He was adopted from South Korea to the San Francisco Bay area... more