The Anna Jinja Show
The Anna Jinja show focuses on the stories, issues, and questions connected to adoption and foster care experiences.
The host is an international adoptee with biological roots in Korea and adopted roots in the United States. As you can imagine, her journey and experiences as a transracial adoptee are multifaceted. Her experiences have been with the pain of discrimination and rejection as well as the joys of self-discovery and learning to embrace all aspects of her identity.
Along the way, she has discovered that she is not alone. We’re all – in some ways – adopted into or out of homes, cultures, communities, and relationships as we grow and evolve. This show illuminates the theme of adoption, in all ways, in our lives. And how those experiences create who we are and who we are yet to be.
Her hope is that through engaging with the guests and creative content, we are welcomed home in this world, cradled in the belief that we belong, that we are worthy, and that we are loved.
So stay tuned, and you may discover your own adoption story.
The Anna Jinja Show
Kristina Denbow & Mather Family Part 2
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What does it mean to have two homes, two families, and two lives — and to love both fully?
In the latest episode of The Anna Jinja Show, host Anna Jinja sits down with Kristina Denbow, a transnational adoptee who was adopted from Kazakhstan as a child and raised in Athens, Ohio. After years of questions about her origins, Kristina made the journey back last summer — visiting the orphanage where she spent her earliest years and reuniting with her biological sister, grandmother, and niece.
What she found wasn't just closure. It was a flooding of memories, a rekindling of love, and a complicated, beautiful reckoning with identity.
Joining the conversation are Sophie Mather — Kristina's longtime friend, who chose the poem "Battery" by Anne Waldman to honor her story — and Sophie's father, Pete, who offers a parent's perspective on what Kristina's courage represents.
This episode speaks to something universal: the human need to know where we come from, and the remarkable capacity we must carry more than one home in our hearts.