Shelise Keum Mee Gieseke (s/hers) is head of operations at Adoption Mosaic. Adoption Mosaic is a BIPOC woman and adoptee-led business that seeks to build an inviting adoption conscious community by providing innovative adoptee-centered programs and support. She has worked in the adoption community as an editor, educator, and administrator for over 10 years, including editing and curating the blog Land of Gazillion Adoptees and the online magazine Gazillion Voices. She is also an intercountry Korean, interracial adoptee who was adopted as an infant by a white family and raised on a farm in Minnesota. She has three siblings who are biological children of her adoptive parents. Shelise has searched for but is not in reunion with her Korean family.

 Shelise lives in Portland, OR and is parenting two biological biracial children with her husband. In this episode co-host Amy Hansen and I are blown away by the depth of knowledge Shelise shares. Her understanding of the adopted persons experience is far reaching.


For more about the incredible work Shelise and her team are doing, please visit their website below.
https://www.adoptionmosaic.com/

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