2015 Conference Keynotes
Keynote Speakers
| Bennett Greenspan March 26, 2015 Thursday 9:15-10:30AM Genetic Genealogy Finding Your Past, Finding Your Future by Bennett Greenspan
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David Smolin
March 26, 2015 Friday 9:15-10:30AM Legislating What We Know, Against the Rising Tide of the Demand for Children
 David Smolin is a Professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the Harwell G. Davis Chair in Constitutional Law, director for the Center for Children, Law, and Ethics. He works together with Desiree Smolin on adoption.
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Rhonda Roorda
March 27, 2015 Friday 1:45-3:00PM Beyond the Controversy and Scholarship of Transracial Adoption: The Lessons Learned in Real Time from a Black American Transracial Adoptee  Rhonda M. Roorda, M.A., a national speaker, transracial adoptee, and coauthor (with scholar Rita J. Simon) of the highly acclaimed trilogy of books on transracial adoption.
As the only child of color, Rhonda was adopted by two white parents from New York and raised in the Washington, D.C. area with her brother and sister.
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Rev. Dr. Nicholas Cooper – Lewter
March 28, 2015 Saturday 1:45-3:00PM Wretched No More: Healing Holes in the Soul Rev. Dr. Nicholas Cooper-Lewter is an adoptee. For the last forty years, he has served as a licensed counselor, psychotherapist, educator and social worker. He has written extensively, and is known as the “Soul Whisperer” helping others to overcome odds and heal the trauma of feeling wretched.
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