Emily Hipchen is the coordinator of creative writing in the department of English and philosophy at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Ga. Her interests include adoption life writing, autobiography, creative nonfiction and British literature. She has taught her students about writing the autobiography of their adoption story as part of her teaching. She […]

Carol Singley is a professor of English and director of undergraduate liberal studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She co-founded the Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity and Kinship and an associate at the university’s Center for Children and Childhood Studies.

Christina Groark is an expert in early-childhood development who teaches psychology in education department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Craig Hickman is a representative in the Maine House of Representatives. He is also a poet, actor, dancer, activist and educator.

Concerned United Birthparents, based in California, began as a support group for birth parents and other birth family members. The group promotes open adoption records and family searches, proposes that most adoptions can and should be prevented and helps some families keep their children when they’re considering adoption because of financial stress. Contact Sarah Burns.

Bastard Nation is known for militant advocacy of adoptees’ right to information about legal and genetic background as a civil right. Contact through the form on their website.

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, founded in 1996, is a national not-for-profit organization devoted to improving adoption policy and practice. They Institute has offices in New York and Boston. April Dinwoodie is the executive director.

Pact is a national nonprofit that provides education and adoption service to children of color, their birth parents and their adoptive parents. Beth Hall is the founder and executive director.

The Child Welfare League of America in Arlington, Va., is a coalition of hundreds of private and public member agencies and a leader in the national child welfare movement, beginning with efforts to abolish orphanages in the 1920s and ’30s. The organization also is a center for information about cultural and racial diversity, including efforts […]