In this episode, we sit down with Rob, a Korean adoptee raised in Denver, Colorado. Rob shares his adoption story, from his early months in foster care to growing up in a family that embraced openness and love. He talks about starting his birth family search as a teenager, the relationships that have grown from that journey, and the powerful role Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families has played in his life — first as a camper for over a decade and now as a counselor. This conversation explores the importance of cultural connection, community, and staying rooted in both personal history and shared identity.

Link to the Heritage Camp: Heritage Camps For Adoptive Families | Colorado Family Camp

Rob's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robreese20?igsh=MXZuOHdlNHNkN3V0bw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

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Today on Color Shift, I’m honored to be joined by Dewi—a powerful voice in the adoptee community whose story spans continents, generations, and identities.

Dewi was born in Indonesia in 1978 and adopted as an infant by white American parents. Renamed "Amy" and raised in white suburbia, she spent years navigating life in silence—until reclaiming her birth name and reconnecting with both birth parents as an adult. She now identifies as a displaced Indigenous person.

Dewi is a mother, a birth mother, and a vocal advocate for adoptee healing. She uplifts spaces like Adoption Mosaic and is the creator of MY NAME IS NOT AMY—a documentary about her boldly reclaiming her identity.

In this conversation, we talk about names, reunion, and what it means to mother yourself while mothering others. Dewi speaks through adoption with truth, depth, and dignity.

Links:

https://www.eight16creative.com/

https://www.mynameisnotamy.com/

Adoption Mosaic: https://adoptionmosaic.com/

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In this episode, I talk with Marcela, a Chilean adoptee who was adopted at one month old and raised in Massachusetts by a white American family. Without connection to her culture or heritage growing up, Marcela always felt something was missing. That changed in 2019 when she found and reunited with her birth mother in Chile. We talk about what reunion has meant to her, how it's shaped her understanding of identity, and how it's influenced the way she thinks about becoming a mother one day.

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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