We the Experts: Adoptee and Non-Adoptee Panel Series

This We the Experts is our 2nd non-adoptee speaker series panel of 2025. It will feature scholars who study adoption and child welfare through a critical lens. The panel will explore how scholars positioned outside the adoptee experience navigate inclusion, adoptee-centered narratives, and their relationship to the adoption community. join us as we listen and learn from these insightful panelists as they share reflections from their research, writing, and academic journeys.

Points to Ponder:

  • What are the pros and cons to not having a personal connection to adoption when writing, investigating, researching about the topic?

  • What motivates someone who is not directly impacted by adoption to study the field?

  • How can non-adoptee scholars contribute to adoption studies in ways that uplift adoptee-centered narratives and advocacy?

  • What gaps still exist in research that, if addressed, could further amplify adoptee voices and experiences?

We the Experts: Adoptee Series

Date: The 2nd Saturday of January, March, April, September, November,
& December

Time: 10 AM - 12 PM PT on Zoom

We the Experts: Non-Adoptee Series

Date: The 2nd Saturday of February, May, & October

Time: 10 AM - 12 PM PT on Zoom

About We the Experts

We the Experts (WTE) is an adoptee-centered space where adoptees and others are invited to sit in community to listen to a myriad of lived experiences. Non-adoptees are invited to attend as listeners and learners only. 

Each panel is recorded and made available to registrants with a list of resources after each event. Topics have included: LGBTQ+ and Adoptee Identity, Adoptees and Reunion, Transracial Adoptee Identity, Adoptees & Substance Use, Birth/First Parents, Adoptees and Religion. 

We hold WTE once a month.

Purchase access to all WTE events for a year (this includes access to the entire WTE Recording Library!)

We the Experts: Non-Adoptee Panel Series

WTE non-adoptee events feature non-adoptees from birth parents to adoptive parents, adult children of adoptees to partners of adoptees.  We hold WTE Non-adoptee events quarterly.

Bringing a non-adopted support person?

AWESOME!!! Please note we request non-adoptees agree to our “Non-Adoptee Understanding” that means their primary intention is to listen and learn and non-adoptee attendees agree that they will NOT engage in the chat or submit questions to the panelists.

Tickets

Attendance fee is $10 for adoptees, $15 for non-adoptees. No adoptee is turned away due to financial hardship.

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  • "The way that Adoption Mosaic’s Team run ‘We The Experts’ creates an immensely safe space with healthy boundaries and a place to focus on the rich content... Being a panelist was a wonderful opportunity to share and be connected to other adoptees."

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