National Adoption Awareness Month

This interview expresses the importance of adoption and the rewarding experience as it relays to Adoption Awareness for November.

“…I try to be a role model for you…”

This is a interview with my one-year-older brother

Interview with Leslie Berenfeld

I had an interview with my lovely mother on October 7, 2018. We discussed what it is like to be a parent, her favorite memories of me, and more. We discussed snippets of her childhood and other parts of her...

What would your life have been without me?

Mai Chiamthamachinda, a junior at William S. Hart High School, asks her brother Shaq Chiamthamachinda, about how he felt during and after her heart surgery.

Interview with Perri Beth Druen

In this interview with 53 year old Perri Beth Druen her 14 year old daughter, Caroline, asks questions about work, love, and even a nickname related to a president!

adoption “you love them the same”

the story of Kay Berken and adopting her children the struggle the emotions and feelings and the process of adopting .

My dad and I

My whole adoption process was a mystery till now.

The childhood hood of Madison Jewell.

The story of what a little girls life was like growing up. The average childhood.

Mason: Monster or Normal Kid?? By:Illyana Cox

Maybe a world... where a girl interviews her brother...

A Mother’s Story

This interview takes place in Fort Mill, South Carolina on January 19th 2020. I am interviewing Neena Khoja who is my mother. She talks about her childhood and her journey from India to the U.S. She also talks about her...

Interview with Mom

I interviewed my mother about her childhood, current life, and hopes for the future.

Learning Nana: An Afternoon With Diane Walker

A Nana tells her grandson what it was like growing up in the country and city during the Second World War, being Black in segregated America, and other challenges she faced later in life.

Aunt Cherry (sibling #12)

My Aunt Cherry is the 12th of my Grandma Classy's children. We talked for a bit about the coronavirus, the ways she is keeping up with there grandchildren and how her church has handled the transition. My favorite part of...

Interview with the hardest working person I know.

In this interview Conducted on December 16, 2019 in Turners Falls Massachusetts I , Hannah Warnock age 15 interview Josh Warnock, my father at age 40, about his childhood, work life and when I was younger. He shared stories from...

The Adopted Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Glenn is a 37 year old cardiac Electrophysiologist who was adopted from Colombia at just a few months old. This interview dives into how his upbringing, the parenting style of his mother and father, and his innate interests and intellect...

My Nana And Her Wonderful Stories

A grandmother and role model for many of the family, Lois Fredericks talks with her grandson, Marcus Fredericks about the things she has experienced in life, and how her "board of directors", also known as her four sons have influenced...

Great thanksgiving listen

We talked about how she grew up and who she counted on the most in her life, and we talked about our favorite memory together.

Tina Grippi tells the story of howbeing adopted affects her life to her daughter, Dani Grippi.

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Sonoma, California, Dani Grippi (14) interviews her mother Tina Grippi (56) about how being adopted affects her life. Tina has always known that she was adopted and is happy that things turned...

Maddey O’Connell and Alex Burton talk about his Adoption journey.

In this interview, conducted in November 2016 in Elgin, IL, Maddey O’Connell (16) interviewed her friend, Alex Burton (18) about his adoption journey from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Russia. Alex shares his family story behind his adoption and his connection to his grandfather...