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Join KAAN from June 21 – 23 for three days of keynotes, films, presentations, roundtables, performers, exhibits, support forums, and life-changing community. KAAN offers an Adoptee-Only track, as well as sessions for a general audience that are open to all. There are programs for adults aged 18+ and youth aged 8-17. Everyone is welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings, and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Friday, June 21 • 8:30am - 12:00pm
Leadership Summit (Invite-Only)

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This is a invite-only pre-KAAN session. You must receive an invitation to attend. Reach out to tech@wearekaan.org if you have any questions.

Speakers
avatar for Dr. Katie Bozek

Dr. Katie Bozek

Executive Director, KAAN
Katie Bozek, PhD is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has worked in the mental health field for the past 20 years providing services that are aimed at helping people be able to be and show their authentic selves. She currently serves as the Executive Director of KAAN... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Cho

Amanda Cho

Amanda (Assalone) Cho, PhD, is a Korean American transracial and transnational adoptee in Atlanta who is actively involved in civil rights and advocacy organizations that support communities of color, particularly Asian Americans and Asian American adoptees. She is the Policy Manager... Read More →
avatar for Hollee McGinnis

Hollee McGinnis

Hollee A. McGinnis, MSW, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. In addition to being adopted from South Korea, she has almost 30 years of community organizing, practice, policy, and research experience on adoption, child welfare, and systems of alternative care (adoption, foster care, orphanages) in the U.S. and South Korea. Prior to her doctorate... Read More →
avatar for Nathan Nowack

Nathan Nowack

Co-Host, The Janchi Show
I am a transnational, transracial Korean Adoptee living in Denver, Colorado.  I am a dad of 3, avid lego collector, golfer, and co-host on a podcast called The Janchi Show.  I am in reunion with my 6 biological siblings.  I serve on the KAAN advisory council as well as the engagement... Read More →


Friday June 21, 2024 8:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Rosemont 2: 3rd Floor
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