Name: Embrace Intersectional Identity: Support Your Needs
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

Library (Lobby)

Over time children available for adoption from China to the United States changed; to include boys and girls who were often older or needed complex medical care.These adoptees joined a growing sub community of adoptees that emerged in the intersection of adoption and disability and or, chronic Illness and medical complexities. We aim to support adoptees that identify with this intersectional identity, and their allies by sharing our experiences as adult Chinese adoptees with disabilities, and the resources that we use in our lives to navigate the unpredictable, isolating, and confusing changes that this intersection brings in adulthood.

Speakers

Ava Busto Schiff

Ava is a 29 year old, Chinese adoptee with cerebral palsy living independently working full time. She is an ambulatory wheelchair user and service dog handler. Ava grew up in NYC surrounded by other Chinese adoptees, exploring her birth culture through language and culture classes... Read More →

Maddy Ullman

Adopted from Hong Kong to America, Maddy is a writer, photographer, and storyteller based in Dallas TX with cerebral palsy and diabetes. Through her career as a showrunner’s assistant at Netflix and Warner Brothers, Maddy is dedicated to raising authentic portrayal of disabilities... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
Library (Lobby)

Fishbowl Session (Adoptee-Centered But Non-Adoptees May Attend To Listen)

KAAN 2025

Ava Busto Schiff

Maddy Ullman

Attendees (5)

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