Episode 2 is here with my super special guest Shelise Gieseke!
Shelise is an intercountry, South Korean, racially and culturally displaced (transracial) adoptee. She was adopted as an infant through an adoption agency and raised on a farm by a white family in rural Minnesota. She has three siblings who are her parents’ biological children. She has been to Korea to search for her family, but did not find them. Shelise has been involved with adoptee-centered projects and organizations such as Land of Gazillion Adoptees blog and the Gazillion Voices online magazine and Adoption Mosaic, where she participates in mixed-constellation groups and is a co-facilitator of the adoptive parent course, Transracial Parenting. She loves to connect with all members of the adoption community and welcomes opportunities to reframe the adoption narrative to center adopted people. In her free time, she likes to watch k-dramas, go to taekwondo with her family, and pretend she is going to learn to speak Korean. Find her on Instagram: @skmg_adoptee