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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Grace Newton

Grace Newton is a PhD student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. Her research seeks to understand the inequitable social forces that deny children the ability to live with their families and interrogate the interventions deemed beneficial for these circumstances. With a particular focus on transracial and transnational adoption, Grace is interested in questions of race, identity, belonging, and the meaning of family after de-kinning and re-kinning. Her status as a Chinese transracial adoptee drives her passion and authenticity in her personal, professional, and academic work related to adoption. Grace has authored the critical adoption blog, Red Thread Broken, for over a decade, worked as a public adoptions social worker in the state of Wisconsin, has facilitated numerous teen and young adult adoptee support groups, and is currently an advisory council member for the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference. For more information please visit: http://redthreadbroken.wordpress.com

My Speakers Sessions

8:00am CDT

Mainstage: Adoptee Representation & Visibility in Research Grand Ballrooms A and BGrace Newton • JaeRan Kim • Hollee McGinnis

My Moderators Sessions

8:00am CDT

Mainstage: Adoptee Representation & Visibility in Research Grand Ballrooms A and BGrace Newton • JaeRan Kim • Hollee McGinnis

KAAN 2024 Conference

Grace Newton

My Speakers Sessions

8:00am CDT

My Moderators Sessions

8:00am CDT

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