How are you celebrated and protected in community?
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage month, and here in this video you’re encouraged to reflect on what it means to be both celebrated and protected as a community member.
What’s been your experience with those two relational concepts, individually, with others, with large amounts of others (like in the commencement setting shown in the intro), etc.
What has gone well for you, and/or are there any situations you wish could have been different?
[Note: a small portion of this video references my response to the Purdue Chancellor mocking an Asian accent at the commencement ceremony]
Looking for more support?
For adoptees, fosters, and families: if you're navigating layers of your adoption journey like identity, grief, birth family, or simply finding the right words for what you're carrying, I've got limited 1:1 counseling spots opening up throughout the spring/summer season.
Think adoptee-sensitive, adoptee-led mental health support. [no need to spend the first three sessions explaining yourself from scratch!]
For Conference Organizers and Training Teams
If your organization works with fosters, adoptees, or the families and professionals around them, and you’re building your speaker lineup for a future event, I’d love to connect. I bring lived adoptee experience and clinical frameworks that your audience can apply immediately. [let's build an event together that they won't forget!]
