About me
Mikaela Li Smith (they/them) is a transnational Chinese American Adoptee who grew up in the midwest. After moving across the country and graduating twice in a pandemic, Mikaela has used past challenges and individual experiences to navigate adoption topics through one-on-one conversations, art expression, and personal written word of their intersecting identities of neurodivergence, queerness, and relationships. Currently they reside in Washington, D.C., with their pandemic puppy, Karma.