Welcome to the 10th Biennial Adoption Initiative Conference 

The Evolution of Adoption Practice: Activist and Community Perspectives

Password for the Vimeo Video: AIC2022PAID

Keynote Panel: Adoptees as Immigrants https://vimeo.com/715857332

Panelists: 

• Anissa Druesedow, Founder of Adoptee Advocacy 
• Daniel Drennan ElAwar, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC Daniel was adopted via Lebanon to the USA at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design 
• Grace Newton, Author at Red Thread Broken Grace Newton is a Chinese adoptee, writer, and speaker. Her writing has been featured in two anthologies, several blogs, and Gazillion Voices Magazine and introduces a nuanced look at adoption. 

Links shared during the the presentation:

• At minute 14:34:27 From Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (they/them/elle) to Everyone: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/abolish-family-policing-too 
• At minute 14:49:21 From Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (they/them/elle) to Everyone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7d4g8/gitxsan-nation-stopped-social-workers-child-protection