Name: College: Leaving Home, Leaving the Fog?
Start: 2025-06-21T16:15:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T17:30:00-0400

The KAAN 2025 Conference will take place at The Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, GA, on June 20-22. The theme this year is Growth and Change. As always, we offer an adoptee-only track alongside our general breakout sessions, which are open to all. We also offer programs for adults and youth (ages 8-17). All are welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Saturday June 21, 2025 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT

Highland 1 & 2 (Lobby)

For transnational/-racial adoptees, entering college can be a transformative period. Navigating life outside of the white adoptive family may bring a whole host of possibilities: learning the language of the motherland, studying abroad in one’s birth country, searching for acceptance and solidarity in Asian-American campus organizations, and intellectualizing about adoptee identity with professors. Yet, what do these changes mean for the adoptee? How might they shift the relationship between the adoptee and the adoptive family, between them and other Asian-Americans, and most importantly, between the adoptee and themself?

Speakers

Eryn Feng

Eryn Fēng (they/them) is a Chinese transnational/-racial adoptee born in Fengcheng, Jiangxi. They are a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College and a Mellon Mays Research Fellow. Their research interests are Critical Adoption Studies, trans theory, queer of color critique, and Asian... Read More →

Zhao Gu Gammage

Zhao Gu Gammage (she/her) is adopted from Gansu Province in northwestern China and recent graduate of Haverford College. She majored in East Asian Languages and Cultures with minors in Chinese language and MENA studies. She speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and elementary Arabic.

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
Highland 1 & 2 (Lobby)

Adoptee-Only Session

KAAN 2025

Eryn Feng

Zhao Gu Gammage

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