Grace Newton is a PhD student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. She is interested in questions of race, identity, belonging, and the meaning of family after de-kinning and re-kinning. Her status as a Chinese transracial adoptee drives her passion and authenticity in her personal, professional, and academic work. Grace previously worked as a public adoption social worker in Wisconsin, is currently an advisory council member for the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference, and has authored the critical adoption blog Red Thread Broken for more than a decade. For more information about Grace's work, please visit: www.redthreadbroken.com and www.adopteeconsciousness.com