Jan 172022
Guest Writers
Occasionally Amanda Badan will be inviting guest writers to contribute with blog posts, articles or share their work/projects.
Jan 102022
Please share widely! Thank you!
Greetings,
Drs. Amanda Baden and Adam Kim (both adult adoptees of color) are conducting a study on the experiences of transracially adopted individuals of color. The study investigates how adopted individuals explore birth culture. Further, we are interested in how birth cultural exploration may be related to identity exploration, experiences of discrimination, and well-being.
We hope that this research will help us present a more accurate picture of how adopted individuals navigate being an adopted person as an adult.
Please consider participating in the study if you are (1) a transracially, transnationally adopted person of color, (2) 18+ years of age, and (3) live in the U.S.
For more information or to participate, https://tinyurl.com/ReculturationSurveyStudy
or follow the QR code below.
Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions!
Best,
Dr. Amanda Baden
Montclair State University
BadenA@mail.montclair.edu
Dr. Adam Y. Kim
Wesleyan University
Akim02@wesleyan.edu
This study has been approved by the Montclair State University Institutional Review Board, MSU IRB #FY21-22-2411.
or follow the QR code.
Mar 052021
The Society of Adoptee Professionals of Color in Adoption (SAPCA) is hosting its inaugural event on March 21, 2021 at 4PM EST. To register, click the image below.
Mar 032013
In the future I will be inviting people to make posts about interesting work, events and perspectives to get you thinking. Watch this space.
Feb 192013
I first met Amanda in 2008 randomly at an adoption event in Hong Kong that we were both asked to speak at. I was a bushy tailed and wide eyed 26 year old HK/Vietnamese adoptee at the time. I had only just started to wonder into the adoption community. Amanda’s insight, guidance & knowledge really helped me look at adoption realistically & fairly which allowed me to gain more clarity of my own place within the large adoption picture.
Since then our paths have continued to randomly cross with our involvement in HK/Chinese adoption communities despite her being based in the USA and myself in the UK. So when Amanda asked me to work with her to redesign & develop a new website, I jumped at the chance.
I am very glad to be able to help her bring together all her work into one place and really look forward to seeing how the new website grows with all aspects of her work.