Adapted™ Podcast
1) Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma
I sit down with Alicia Soon Hershey, 41, a Korean transnational adoptee now living in Barcelona. Soon Hershey was the very first adoptee interviewed on the podcast back in 2016 and our conversation bo...Show More
2) Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees
Korean-American cultural anthropologist Eleana Kim talks about her research that went into the seminal imprint "Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging," Duke Un...Show More
Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees
1:30:19 | Aug 16th, 2024
3) Season 7, Episode 24: Geoffrey Winder - Fluidity in Identity
Geoffrey Winder (born Jong Ke-Bin) (he/him), 42, of Oakland, CA, shares some of his story as a queer Black Korean transnational and transracial adopted man and about his activism in queer advocacy, ad...Show More
4) Season 7, Episode 23: Mirae KH Rhee - A Running Dragon
Mirae Kate-hers Rhee, 48, is a transnational, transcultural artist and adopted Korean who uses her socio-political artwork and performance to investigate concepts like identity and belonging.
5) Season 7, Episode 22: Sarah Harris - Camptowns and Belonging
Korean mixed-race adoptee Sarah Harris, 54, of Los Angeles, shares her story of visiting Korea and finding the place where she felt truly rooted.
6) Season 7, Episode 21: Delight Roberts - Marrying into a Korean-American Family
Korean adoptee Delight Roberts, 52, talks about marrying into a Korean-American family and the challenges and benefits that provided her. Some were surprising – like table eating etiquette – but all o...Show More
Season 7, Episode 21: Delight Roberts - Marrying into a Korean-American Family
1:19:26 | Jun 21st, 2024
7) Season 7, Episode 20: Wyatt Tuell - An Unconventional Family
Wyatt Tuell, 45, is a Korean-American adoptee who was raised outside Omaha, Nebraska with a Korean immigrant adoptive mother and a white American adoptive father who was much older than his mother. Gr...Show More
8) Season 7, Episode 19: Kit Myers - Ghostly Kinship
Kit Myers, 42, is a transracial Hong Kong adoptee and assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. In this interview, we talk about Myers' search f...Show More
9) Season 7, Episode 18: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 2
I continue the conversation with Nik Nadeau, 36, a Korean adoptee who is in reunion with his Korean birth mother. He is a secret, unable to meet his half-siblings who are also in their 30s, or be ackn...Show More
10) Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother
Nik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing process and about how he's unlocked feelings about the reunion and his own identity as a ...Show More