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Mar 17
5 min

Reflections from KAAN 2019 Scholarship Recipients

Attending a KAAN conference for the first time can be transformative. This post shares the experiences of three 2019 scholarship recipients.

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Sep 18, 2018
4 min

A Letter from KAAN’s New Executive Director

Thank you all for the tremendous support as I step into the role of KAAN’s executive director. I appreciate all of the comments, messages, and texts of suppo...

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Sep 13, 2017
2 min

Video Participation Opportunity … Deadline 10/15

Patrick Amunson attended his first KAAN conference this summer and found it to be life-changing. Amunson, a videographer, decided to give back by collecting ...

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Jun 24, 2016
2 min

Honoring Orlando: #KAAN2016 Conference

This message was shared this afternoon at the kickoff of the #KAAN2016 Conference by Advisory Council member Mark Hagland and presenter Erica Gehringer. Disc...

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May 13, 2016
3 min

How #KAAN2016 Meets the Needs of … Adult Adoptees Who Have Been There, Done That

This post is one in a series highlighting the ways our #KAAN2016 Conference, scheduled for June 24-26 in Pittsburgh, PA, provides a wonderful place for educ...

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May 4, 2016
3 min

How #KAAN2016 Meets the Needs of … Parents of Adult Adoptees

This post is one in a series highlighting the ways our #KAAN2016 Conference, scheduled for June 24-26 in Pittsburgh, PA, provides a wonderful place for educ...

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Apr 29, 2016
4 min

How #KAAN2016 Meets the Needs of … Adoptive Parents of Teen & Young Adult Adoptees

This post is one in a series highlighting the ways our #KAAN2016 Conference, scheduled for June 24-26 in Pittsburgh, PA, provides a wonderful place for educ...

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Jun 17, 2015
3 min

KAAN 2015: Intersections of Race, Identity, and Adoption

As the media buzz kicked off by #RachelDolezal swells around “new” conversations of race, identity, and misappropriation, a national adoptive community organ...

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Mar 14, 2015
2 min

Announcing A New Collaborative Video Project

Brought to you by: The AN-YA Project, KAAN, The Lost Daughters Project: Dear Wonderful You, #FliptheScript: For the Next Generation will be a campaign which ...

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Sep 2, 2014
4 min

How I Met The Lost Boys Of Sudan (On The Way To KAAN)

A guest post by Katie Jae Naftzger, LICSW, a KAAN presenter, member of KAAN’s Advisory Council, and family therapist, adoption specialist, speaker, and consu...

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Jul 10, 2013
4 min

What Transracial Adoptees Share: A Conversation with Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, Ph.D.

by Mark Hagland Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, Ph.D., was abandoned in northern India in the 1970’s, and adopted at the age of two-and-a-half years. She grew...

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Jun 26, 2013
5 min

Racism and White Privilege: Breaking out of the “White Club”

An Interview by Mark Hagland For the fifth year in a row, Jennifer Griffith Hilzinger will help lead a session for all KAAN attendees on racism and white pri...

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Jun 3, 2013
4 min

On Spark Moments and In-Between Places

My pastor and good friend (who also happens to be an adoptive sibling) recently gave a sermon where she referred to ecotones. It was a new term for me. Ecoto...

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May 29, 2013
7 min

Not An “Adoption Expert”

When I was in elementary school my father introduced me to an older girl who I was told was my new sister. I instantly began spending as much time as she wou...

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May 7, 2013
3 min

Variations on a Common Theme: Adult Adoptees Set to Explore “Commonalities Across Countries” at KAAN

I am incredibly excited to be able to participate in two of the sessions at this summer’s KAAN Conference, because they speak to so much of what motivates me...

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