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The Rambler
by Mike McDonald
This candid, one-on-one style interview chronicles the lives of adoptees and people's lives who were touched by adoption, good, bad, and everything in between! If you're interested in an interview, or are a musical artist who would like to provide music for the show, please DM me on Twitter at @TheRamblerADHD or email me at [email protected].
Episodes
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Episode 59: Peggy Galdamez
Peggy Galdamez is a Korean adoptee, adopted at 6 months old and claims Michigan as her home state. She has an older brother (also adopted from Korea) and has a younger half-brother (adopted from Brasil). She currently resides in Silicon Valley with her husband and two daughters where they enjoy...
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Episode 58: Kevin Kreider
Fitness activist and model, Kevin Kreider designed recalls being bullied for his lanky figure, Asian heritage, and ticks caused by the onset of Tourette Syndrome at a young age. Now a full-time coach and model, Kevin has won several natural bodybuilding competitions, graduated with a degree in...
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Episode 57: Adam Goodman
Adam Goodman is a Korean adoptee who grew up in Westchester, NY along side his younger brother (also adopted and biologically related). He's now living in North Jersey with his girlfriend. In addition to his day job as a business analyst, he and a group of like-minded friends have launched an...
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Episode 56: Mike Mullen
Michael Mullen was adopted from Korea when he was 2.5 years old and didn’t meet another Asian person for 14 years. He grew up in Washington State, attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, and moved to New York in 1997, after living in Seoul and Chicago. He attended one of...
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Episode 55: Samuel Jamier
Samuel Jamier is a Korean-French adoptee and director of the New York Asian Film Festival. You can get tickets to the NYAFF and speak with Samuel at a screening of the Korean film “Split,” this Sunday, June 9th at 12:30pm in the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. Get tickets and follow…
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Episode 54: Emma Rafaelof
Emma Rafaelof is a China and Greater Asia policy researcher focusing on technology and trade issues of the US-China relationship. Adopted from Jiangmen, China at 4 months old, she is an only child adopted into a multiracial Jewish family. After growing up and attending University in Boulder,...
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Episode 53: Robby Regal
Robby Regal Kim is a Korean adoptee who grew up in northern Minnesota. He is currently writing a work of creative nonfiction that focuses on his coming of age experiences with adoption, American foster care, the Asian-American community, and Texas Holdem poker. He is now a father and residing in...
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Episode 52: Maline Carroll
Maline is a Haitian adoptee who is an adoption consultant working in the Boston area. She works to help adoptive parents strengthen, empower, and better understand their adopted children who will one day become adults. Maline enjoys reading, writing, and also blogging and detests long walks on…
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Episode 51: Katie Naftzger
Katie Naftzger is a Korean-adoptee, psychotherapist in Newton, MA. She works with adoptees and families through the life cycle. She is an advisory council member of KAAN and speaks to schools and other organizations about adoption and race issues. Her website is www.adoptiontherapyma.com. Follow...
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Episode 50: Michaela Dietz
Michaela Dietz is a voice over artist and performer, whose credits include Steven Universe (Amethyst), Barney & Friends (Riff), Grand Theft Auto V, and some top secret projects in the works! She loves hearing from fellow Korean American adoptees, so find her on Instagram / Snapchat / Twitter:...
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Episode 49: Jonathan LeBrecque II
Jonathan LeBrecque is back on the show! Listen to his first episode, which is Episode 32 to hear the first parts of his story. In this episode, we pick up with Jonathan after his second trip to Korea and his reunion with his birth family! You can still find him on LinkedIn, or at...
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Episode 48: Jenny Town
Jenny Town is the Assistant Director of the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and manages programs on North Korea, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and energy security in Northeast Asia. She is the Managing Editor and Producer of “38 North,” a...
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Episode 47: Saebom SooHoo / Emily Kessel
Saebom SooHoo lives in the Boston area with her partner and kids. She works in higher education administration and runs a pan-Asian adoptee book and film deep dive discussion group called Boston Adoptee Exchange (BAX), bostonadopteex.com. She has been active in the Asian American arts and…
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Episode 46: Nayo Franck
Adopted from Korea at 15 months and then diagnosed as profoundly deaf one month later, raised in Cooperstown, New York. Currently a graduate student at Gallaudet University in Wash DC, doing a MA thesis on "Identity Development of Deaf Female Korean Adoptees in the Framework of Intersectionality"...
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Episode 45: Kelsi Macklin
Kelsi Macklin is an international adoptee from China. She currently lives and works in Beijing and has been exploring her Chinese and Asian American identity alongside with learning how to be a grown up. She enjoys meeting and connecting with other adoptees coming through Beijing. You can connect...
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Episode 44: Shaaren Pine
Shaaren Pine is a transracial adoptee from India. She was brought to the US in 1975 at the age of 4 months. She grew up in Groton, MA, went to school at Earlham College, and has spent the last decade in restaurant management. In the last few years she’s become a writer and adoptee activist - you...
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Episode 43: Ming Foxweldon
Ming Foxweldon currently lives in the Seattle area, having moved last year from New Hampshire where she was mainly raised. Ming was adopted from Kubming China in 1994, at 3.5 years old. She enjoys passing the time traveling, cooking, trying new foods, spending time with friends, watching...
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Episode 42: Kerri Vitalo-Logan
Kerri Vitalo-Logan lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children, one of whom is also a Korean adoptee. She and her twin sister are in reunion with their birth family and are trying to figure out how to navigate post-reunion relationships with them. You can find her on Facebook or...
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Episode 41: Deb Sivigny
Deb Sivigny has been designing in the Washington, DC area for over a decade and is the resident faculty artist in the Theatre and Performance Studies Department at Georgetown University. She teaches courses in design and costume history. She was a Doyle Faculty Fellow in 2015 and a TLISI Summer...
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Episode 40: Sophie Samdperil / Emily Kessel
Sophie Samdperil is a Chinese American Adoptee from Nanjing China. She was raised in Brookline, MA and is currently attending Bates College in Maine, studying Sociology. Please feel free to contact her via email and facebook! Emaik: [email protected] Emily Kessel was last week's guest, but she's...
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Episode 39: Emily Kessel
Born in South Korea, but raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Emily is a Korean adoptee, who from a young age, has been involved with the Korean adoptee community in Minnesota and abroad. As a university student at the University of St. Thomas, she was involved with the Office of International Student...
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Episode 38: Michelle Madrid-Branch
Michelle Madrid-Branch is an author, speaker, and global advocate for women and children. She is the author of Adoption Means Love: Triumph of the Heart and the children's book, The Tummy Mummy. Connect with Michelle on Twitter @LetHerBeGreater, Instagram, or on Facebook. To learn more about...
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Episode 37: Linda Rogers
Linda Rogers was adopted from Korea when she was 2 1/2 years old, and she has lived in Minnesota since then. A little over 3 years ago she made contact with her biological family, and continue to have a relationship with them. Linda is a mother of three, and enjoys spending time with family and...
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Episode 36: Sarah Eldred
Sarah Eldred is a Korean adoptee who resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a free spirit who enjoys anything creative, writing, art, storytelling. Currently, she is working at Minnesota Public Radio in the development department with a goal to move into the production side of things. Eldred…
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Episode 35: A.J. Bryant
A.J. Bryant is an adult adoptee, who was born in Kerala, South India and adopted to the US in 1980. He holds a unique perspective, growing up in a transracial household as an Indian male adoptee. He has a brother and a sister, also adopted from India, but they are not biological connections. He...
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Episode 34: We The Lees
The Lees are a husband/wife team who happen to both be Korean adoptees. This commonality brings a lot of unique dynamics to their marriage, their understanding of each other, & their interactions with others. They currently reside in Nashville, TN. About Lee Lee was adopted at four months of age...
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Episode 33: Whitney and Lee Fritz (We the Lees)
The Lees are a husband/wife team who happen to both be Korean adoptees. This commonality brings a lot of unique dynamics to their marriage, their understanding of each other, & their interactions with others. They currently reside in Nashville, TN. About Lee Lee was adopted at four months of age...
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Episode 32: Jonathan LeBrecque
Jonathan LeBrecque is currently living in Washington, DC and working for the government in international development within the area of HIV/AIDS. He grew up in Springfield, MA, with three siblings: an older sister and two younger brothers. Jon went to college in Providence, RI and studying abroad...
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Episode 31: Sally Spickard
Sally Spickard is a Korean American adoptee who grew up in Missouri and now lives in California. She is also a writer and an Olympic Equestrian that hopes to compete for the South Korean team in Tokyo 2020. You can visit her blog at www.kckad.tumblr.com and follow her on Twitter @SallySpickard....
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Episode 30: Kira Omans
Kira Omans is an actress, model, and non-profit spokesperson from Washington D.C. At twenty years old, she is also the youngest and the first adoptee to be crowned 2015 Pacific Miss Asian American. You can like her Facebook page at Facebook.com/KiraEmilyOmans. Songs from A Collective Effort are...
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Episode 29: Cynthia Gordon Burns
Cynthia Gordon-Burns was born in 1965 in Paju near the DMZ and adopted in 1967. She grew up in CT in an adoptive home that provided unconditional love and support. Her parents, Roy and Annette, as well as her adoptive brother, Glenn, have always given her the room to be herself. After a 5 year...
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Episode 28: Wendy Marie
Wendy Marie Laybourn is a Korean adoptee and current PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. At four months of age, Wendy was adopted by a white working class family and was raised in Memphis, TN. Growing up in a city haunted by the assassination of Martin Luther...
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Episode 27: Spencer Stevens
Spencer is a Korean-Adoptee, born in Seoul and raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. In pursuit of higher education, he enlisted into the US Air Force with the great fortune of serving six years as a Korean Cryptologic Language Analyst, spending two years learning Korean in Monterey,...
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Episode 26: Katie Holz
Katie Holz is a Chinese American adoptee and is one of the board members for China's Children International (CCI). Currently, Katie is earning her bachelor's degree in Health Science at Stockton University. She's passionate about providing a platform for adoptee voices and through her work with…
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Episode 25: Elizabeth Guidara
Elizabeth was born in Busan, South Korea and was adopted by an Italian American family. She grew up as an artist with an intense interest and passion for international affairs and law. She volunteered as an actor with the Florence International Theater Company to help combat violence against…
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Episode 24: Laura Cerrano
Certified Feng Shui Expert and Colombian adoptee Laura Cerrano is the CEO and founder of Feng Shui Manhattan (established in 1997). She is a full-time consultant who provides remote and on-site healing consultations, seminars, workshops and classes in New York, California, New Jersey and...
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Episode 23: Milton Washington Part 2
Born is South Korea, Milton was adopted and brought to the states in 1979 where he learned English and the American culture. Today he lives in Harlem and operates a creative agency while completing his memoir entitled Slickyboy. Slickyboy Synopsis: A fatherless black boy was born to a Korean...
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Episode 22: Milton Washington Part 1
Born is South Korea, Milton was adopted and brought to the states in 1979 where he learned English and the American culture. Today he lives in Harlem and operates a creative agency while completing his memoir entitled Slickyboy. Slickyboy Synopsis: A fatherless black boy was born to a Korean...
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Episode 21: Brendon Albrizio
Brendon Albrizio is a Korean adoptee living in Boston. He was adopted with his biological brother, Chris, when he was just over a year old (he was 4). He’s been involved in the community as a member of BKA since 2010. He was also the co-founder of a mobile app and digital marketing startup called...
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Episode 20: Nate Kupel / Jen Kim
Nate Kupel is a Korean adoptee living in the Boston area and has worked with mental health, workforce development, and community based non-profits in the Greater Boston area to help them address and tackle systemic problems and strategic growth. Nate has published community based reports...
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Episode 19: Jacquelyn Wells
Jacquelyn Wells is a Korean American adoptee from Boston, MA. She is the owner, maker, and designer of Oohjacquelina Jewelry Designs, and a singer-songwriter. She is currently a volunteer/intern with www.womencrossDMZ.org working to end the Korean War, promote peace with women at the forefront of...
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Episode 18: Jenn Welch
Jenn Welch is a 30-something, native Bostonian, and Korean American adoptee. She is currently the Director of International Student Enrollment at Thayer Academy, a private day school outside of Boston. Over the last 15 years, she has been committed to helping young people, from diverse…
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Episode 17: April Dinwoodie
April Dinwoodie is a domestic transracial adoptee, a nationally recognized thought leader on adoption and foster care, and the Chief Executive of the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI). April is committed to improving laws, policies and practices through sound research, education and advocacy.…
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Episode 16: Oh Myo Kim
Oh Myo Kim is a Korean adoptee working at Boston College as an assistant professor of the practice, counseling, developmental, and educational psychology department. She has a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and a BA from Rutgers University. Her expertise is in adoption, cultural...
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Episode 15: Julie Young / Amy Ginther
Julie Young is a Korean-American adoptee and is the Founder of DreamMaker DreamDoer DreamSupporter, Inc (3D) and The Phenomenal Girls Club. She is a recovering attorney, writer, speaker, producer and host of Not Your Average for KoreanAmericanStory.org. She is Chair of the Board for...
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Episode 14: Heather Schultz
Heather Schultz is the communications and development manager at The Donaldson Adoption Institute and freelance writer. She has covered a wide array of beats including bridal technology, criminal justice, pop culture, direct marketing, legal technology, digital marketing and interior design. Her...
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Episode 13: Zeke Anders
Zeke Anders is a Korean adoptee who grew up in Detroit. He’s an independent film maker, photographer, and podcaster. In 2014, Anders created a 5-part vlog series, "American Seoul" about his childhood as an adoptee that gained national attention by NBC News, Asian-American News Journal and NPR to...
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Episode 12: Tara Vanderwoude
Tara Vanderwoude is a Korean-born adoptee, a wife, mother, friend, social worker, educator, and lifelong learner. When asked to describe adoption with only one word, her go-to answer is COMPLEX. Her blog, taravanderwoude.com, attempts to give voice to these complexities -- they are plentiful,...
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Episode 11: Meghan McCartney
Meghan McCartney is a Korean adoptee who was born in Incheon City. She grew up in New Jersey and received her master's degree in ESL Education at a university in New Jersey, before finally breaking free and fulfilling her long-held dream living and working in Japan. Now back in the States, Meghan...
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Episode 10: Rachel Park
Rachel Park is a tie designer, breast cancer THRIVER/awareness advocate, and founder of Rachel Park Designs and Survivor Moda. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the Midwest, she grew up making clothes for family and friends and loved the creative process. Since 2005, she moved from Chicago...
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This candid, one-on-one style interview chronicles the lives of adoptees and people's lives who were touched by adoption, good, bad, and everything in between! If you're interested in an interview, or are a musical artist who would like to provide music for the show, please DM me on Twitter at @TheRamblerADHD or email me at [email protected].
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Mike McDonald
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