Victoria (Torie) is a speaker, consultant, and cultural anthropologist. As a biracial Black transracial adoptee, she was raised in KY in a white Italian American family. She is the founder of Wreckage and Wonder LLC, a small business that educates prospective white adoptive and foster parents and provides webinars and trainings to adoption and child welfare organizations.

Kit Myers is a transracial/national Hong Kong adoptee and an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Merced. He was previously a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Merced. His teaching interests include the study of race and other social categories of difference, especially theoretical and legal aspects.

Christelle Pellecuer is a certified coach, specializing in providing holistic support to black adoptees as they navigate their adoption story and identity. With a rich background spanning diverse sectors including higher education, beauty and fashion, and arts, culture and heritage, Christelle brings a multifaceted perspective to her coaching practice.

Cam’s work has been featured in National Council for Adoption, Christianity Today, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, and Center for Adoption Support and Education. Paired with his clinical practice, Cam serves as a training facilitator for the accredited Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate, a leading post-Master’s curriculum shaping adoption competencies for over 1800 professional graduates nationwide. 

Marcella Moslow, LCSW, RPT is an interracial and international adoptee from Colombia, as well as a certified trauma therapist with a private practice in Buffalo, NY.

Sun Mee explores the meaning of true belonging in this transcultural world—She is a certified Holistic Coach, Retreat Facilitator, and Founder of NUMARU—An international Community and Emotional Wellbeing Platform for transracial and BIPoc adoptees (TRA).

Isaac Etter is an adoptee and social entrepreneur. Isaac was transracially adopted at the age of two. He is the founder of Identity, a startup focused on using technology to help adoptive and foster parents thrive.

Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka (she/they) is a Korean adoptee who was born in Seoul in 1976 and grew up outside of Detroit in a white, working-class Christian evangelical household.

Daniel was adopted from mainland China at three years old and currently lives outside the Seattle/Tacoma USA area. He was diagnosed with a rare disease called TSC at six years old.

Lia is a Black same race adoptee. She spent time in foster care before being adopted. She is the founder of the podcast, Adoptees Crossing Lines, where she has honest conversations about being an adoptee and the industry as a whole.