Grace Newton

Grace Newton is a PhD student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago, where she studies transracial and transnational adoption. In addition to understanding adoption policy and practice, Grace is interested in adoptees' lifelong development related to race, identity, belonging, and the meaning of family after de-kinning and re-kinning.

Grace is a co-creator of the Adoptee Consciousness Model and author of the critical adoption blog, Red Thread Broken. She brings her lived experience as a Chinese transracial adoptee as well as her practice experience as a former public adoptions social worker to her research.

For more information about Grace's work, please visit: www.redthreadbroken.com  and www.adopteeconsciousness.com .