DATE: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 from 8:00 - 8:30 PM EST Live stream through Zoom to YouTube
The annual CCI November Guest Chat is a special edition of our Adoptee Only Guest Speaker series and is held in honor of November (Inter)National Adoptee Month. It hopes to amplify adoptee voices that critically and thoughtfully engage in challenging dominant adoption narratives, as well as to encourage others to think about the social, economic, and political conditions that underlie and perpetuate the international adoption system and that inform adult adoptee communities.
For our extra special CCI November Guest Chat, CCI is honored to welcome Laura Williams, transracial Chinese American adoptee, researcher, and mentor within the Chinese adoptee community. She came to speak to CCI members about her own story, her research, her findings, and her experiences as a Chinese adoptee working in the adoption research field.
ABOUT LAURA: Laura X. Williams, is a transracial Chinese American Adoptee, adopted from Yi Wu, Zhejiang, China who grew up in Verona, New Jersey with her parents and pet cats. As a graduate of Goucher College’s Masters in Cultural Sustainability program, Laura explored topics of adoption identity, social barriers among adoptive parents, cultural context surrounding adoptees in the United States, and holistic group processing techniques. Laura has eight years of research and mentorship experience throughout her local adoptive communities. She now lives and works in Denver, Colorado pursuing licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Combining it with her past research, Laura hopes to merge her two fields of study into an innovative gift for continued exploration of intersectional identity development throughout one’s lifetime.
