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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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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 at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. McGinnis was the Policy Director at the Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York City. She received her Master of Science from Columbia University School of Social Work, and a post-Master’s Clinical Fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. In 1996 she founded Also-Known-As, Inc., a non-profit adult intercountry adoptee organization in New York City.
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  • Filter By Date KAAN 2024 Conference Jun 21 -23, 2024
  • Filter By Venue 6100 North River Road, Rosemont, Illinois 60018, USA
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  • Activities
  • Adoptee-Only Dinner
  • Adoptee-Only Session
  • Check-In
  • Exhibitors & Sponsors
  • Fishbowl Session (Adoptee-Centered But Non-Adoptees May Attend To Listen)
  • General Session (Open To All Attendees)
  • KAAN
  • Leadership
  • Mainstage Event
  • Meals
  • Youth Program