Thank you for your interest in our first #GenZAdoptees Personal Development Panel Session! This conversation will take place Thursday, March 14th at 7pm EST. We cannot wait to connect our adoption communities and learn together from adoptees who were once in our shoes.
A zoom link will be sent to your email you register with prior to the session.
If you have any questions please reach out to avia@themadeofmoreproject.org :)
Our Panelists include:
Taylor Shennett: Taylor is a transracial, Chinese adoptee passionate about adoption advocacy and education. She is from Memphis Tennessee but now lives in sunny Celebration Florida. Ms. Shennett has built a community on TikTok and Instagram where she shares her adoption story and adoption awareness and education.
Adam Goodman: Adam (aka 이성일) is a Korean-American adoptee who grew up in Westchester County, New York and now lives in Fort Lee, NJ. He graduated from Pace University in 2005, and has worked as a Business Analyst in the Luxury Goods & Services and Financial Services industries since graduation. Adam joined Also-Known-As in 2010 and has been a mentor in the Mentorship Program since 2018.
Brittany Nash: Brittany Nash is a photographer, owner of Ebon Business Services, and founder of The Daily Adoptee, an online space where Black and Brown transracial adoptee voices are prioritized and celebrated. As a Black-adopted woman, small business owner, and racial justice advocate, she prides herself on being a strategic networker in pairing projects she consults on with racial justice education, event planning, and community revitalization. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Liberal Arts degree in Communications and has committed to using her knowledge of business, journalism, photography, and graphic design to impact the world in as many little ways as possible to have a lasting impact.
Dr. Kate Firestone: Dr. Kate Firestone is the current Program Manager at Woori Center in Lansdale, PA. Woori Center organizes Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial, and economic justice in Pennsylvania. Dr. Firestone acquired her PhD in 2020 from Michigan State University in Writing in Rhetoric. Her dissertation, entitled "Sharing Stories, Making Space: Relational Literacy & Korean American Adoptee Rhetorics," uses a cultural rhetorics methodology of story and relationality to examine the role of racial isolation in the leadership practices of Korean American adoptee community leaders. Dr. Firestone also works at Adoptees4Justice which is trying to pass legislation to grant adoptees without citizenship their right to have it. Outside of work, Kate is a devoted cat mom to her two cats Pookie and Bud!
