Media and podcast interviews

I’ve been privileged to talk about my work on several podcasts and provide professional or personal insights on research, practice, and policy related to adoption and child welfare in the media.

Podcasts

• Addicted to Race 116: Black kids in white communities
• Addicted to Race 73: Celebrity Adoptions
• Addicted To Race 41: Transracial adoption roundtable
• Addicted To Race Premium 4 – Adoption
• Asia Pacific Forum – March 20, 2007 Show (website closed)
• Video of a reading of “Scattered Seeds” at the Outsiders Within book launch, November 18, 2006

Media interviews

The following are articles in which I am quoted. Some of these links may be broken as the sites on which they were published may have moved content around.

• The Missing Stories of South Asian Adoption. The Juggernaut, October 2, 2025.
• Kids of Color in Minnesota Foster Care Are Most Likely to Live With White Foster Parents — And Why There are Concerns. September 10, 2024.
• What’s the best way to parent adopted children? BBC Family Tree, December 6, 2022. 
• The Threat of International Adoption for Migrant Children Separated From Their Families. The Intercept, July 1, 2018.
• Transracial Adoption Support Systems Scarce Despite Difficulties. NBC Asian America, March 15, 2016.
• International Adoptees Create A New Sense Of Community Together. National Public Radio, May 10, 2015.
• Interview with KSTP on adoption delays in Minnesota, April 18, 2015
• How adoption has forced evangelicals to grapple with race relations. Religious News Service, December 22, 2014.
• Re-homing: Parents go online to find new homes for kids. Fox 9 Minnesota, September 12, 2013
• Feature on the University of Minnesota’s College of Human Development and Education website, July, 2013
• Interview with Phil Picardi about contested adoption case, Minnesota Public Radio, March 30, 2013
• Riley’s in Uganda blog: Guest Blog Post – An Interview with JaeRan Kim – An Internationally Adopted Adult, January 3, 2013
• “Talk with me about…everything”: Blog podcast for Land of Gazillion Adoptees, July 20, 2012
• Roundtable: The adoptee experience, Minnesota Public Radio, July 13, 2012
• Research, Experts Say Racial Identity Important After Adoption, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, December 13, 2011
• The Myth of the Forever Family – Brain, Child Magazine, Summer 2010
• De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized: New York Times March 27, 2008