Join us for a chance to engage with guests from last week’s Panel with Trans-racial Adoptees.

• Jacqueline (Jackie) Council is the Founder and President of Be You Inc. Empowering and navigating women and children through the process of healing and transitioning post-trauma. She is a wife, and mother to three beautiful children.  She was adopted at the age of 3 ½ from the Dominican Republic, by a white rural American family. As one of the first successful International adoptions and being a child that was raised in a trans racial household she has spoken out on the positive and negatives of growing up Afro-Dominican in rural white America.  
• Alexas Esposito was born in San Antonio, TX and adopted at birth, and grew up in Western/Central NY. She attended Ithaca College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Composition in 2012. She is a practicing doula, an emerging seed-keeper, apprentice to a local indigenous healer, and the co-director a new local non-profit, the Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing.  
  
• Aaron King was adopted through Holt at age three and was raised in rural Arkansas. He studied psychology and education and has worked at colleges across the country (where he has met several fellow adoptees) for more than a decade. He likes to run, thrift shop, and chase his two daughters around.
• Michael Ken Stewart is a cultural worker that grounds this work in humanizing those that are disregarded, rendered invisible, misunderstood or forgotten. He helped create Painting Adoption Weekend, which used art to talk about adoption with adoptees, and mentors young people in foster care New York City through the AdoptMent program. He also has produced an independent podcast called, $6.99 Per Pound. He dedicates his free time to photography, reading, and learning about his family history and the history of the Asian Diaspora. His current inspirations are Gordon Parks, Fan Ho, and Zen Buddhism.
• Facilitated by Sarah Gotowka, a trans-racial adoptee and youth mentor.