Emma Wexler, 22, is a Vietnamese adoptee who grew up influenced by the experiences and writings of Korean adoptees. She has thought a lot about identity and race, intercountry adoption and privilege, socio-economics, race and child displacement. The future medical school student has always felt different – from being raised by a single white woman within the Jewish faith, as an Asian-American adoptee not particularly connected to Vietnamese culture, and as an adoptee who was outside of the more dominant Korean adoptee community. Now, she hopes those spaces can also make room for adoptees from other countries to be part of the collective voices.

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