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Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees
This podcast is where transracial adoptees come and share their stories.
Episodes
31 episodes
Color Shift: Lily
In this episode of Color Shift, we sit down with Lily, a Thai adoptee whose journey spans continents, recovery, and self-discovery. Born in Bangkok and spending her early years in foster care, Lily was adopted at age four by a whi...
Color Shift: Maya
In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees, Maya shares her experience as a Cambodian adoptee raised by LGBTQ moms in Maine before eventually settling in Pennsylvania. Maya reflects on growing up at the intersection of adopti...
Color Shift: Sarah M
For this episode of Color Shift, Nathan sits down with Sarah Myer, the acclaimed Korean American comic artist, author, and illustrator behind the award-winning graphic memoir Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story. Adopte...
Color Shift: Luciana
In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees, Luciana shares her experience growing up as an Indonesian adoptee in rural East Texas, navigating identity, belonging, and the feeling of being “othered” in a conservat...
Color Shift: Vinh
Vinh was born in Vietnam, with Cambodian roots, and adopted into an Icelandic, Danish, and Swedish family, where he was raised in Sweden. Growing up across multiple cultures, Vinh carried a deep curiosity about his origins—one that stayed...
Color Shift: Tara
Tara was adopted as a baby from Lake Charles, Louisiana by white Mormon parents and raised in Utah with seven siblings—three biological to her adoptive parents and four adopted from different families. In 2018, she reunited with her biological ...
Color Shift: Renee
In this episode of Color Shift, we’re joined by Renee, a Korean adoptee born in Daegu in 1976 and brought to the United States in 1977. Renee’s adoption story, as she shares, isn’t a simple one—and it’s one she’s willing to spea...
Color Shift: April
April joins the show to share her story of growing up as a Black/biracial adoptee navigating identity, belonging, and family in predominantly white spaces.Relinquished at birth in Massachusetts, April spent her earliest months in tempora...
Color Shift: Amy
In this episode of Color Shift, Nathan sits down with Amy, a Black transracial adoptee who was adopted at just two months old and primarily raised by a single white mother in Rhode Island. Amy reflects on what it was like growing up in...
Color Shift: Pat
Patrick (“Pat”) was adopted from Vietnam at six months old and raised in Central Pennsylvania, just outside of Harrisburg, where he still lives today. At sixteen, he returned to Vietnam on a motherland tour with his adoption agency — a trip tha...
Color Shift: Hasina
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Hasina, a transracial adoptee born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977. With little known about her birth story, Hasina spent her earliest years in an orphanage before being adopted at age three by a white Canadi...
Color Shift: Camp Rice
In this special episode of Color Shift, we have invited a panel of guest to talk about their experiences at Camp Rice. A Korean Culture camp hosted by Asia Families. Hyn and Monica attended Camp Rice last year as "campers" for the f...
Color Shift: Steven
In this episode of Color Shift, we’re joined by Steven, a Vietnamese adoptee who grew up in Wyoming and has returned to Vietnam several times as an adult. Steven reflects on transracial adoption, identity, and what it means to reconnec...
Color Shift: Nate
Most of the time, I would have a nice info here for the show notes about the guest. Well, this time, I am keeping short and sweet. The guest this week is none other than myself, Nate Choi. I am also happy to introduce my long ...
Color Shift: Karasalla
Karasalla was born in Hawaiʻi, mixed Samoan and Black, and entered the foster care system before her first birthday. She was later adopted by a white, conservative family in Oregon, where she grew up navigating questions of race, identity, and ...
Color Shift: Alejandra
In this episode, Alejandra shares her journey as a Guatemalan adoptee raised in the predominately white suburbs of Baltimore. Adopted at 15 months old, Alejandra always knew she was adopted — but knowing didn’t mean understanding. From growing ...
Color Shift: Jacob
Episode Description – Jacob: When Adoption Breaks DownIn this episode of Color Shift, host Nathan Choi talks with Jacob, who shares a powerful and often overlooked side of adoption — what happens when an adoptive p...
Color Shift: Claire
Episode Description: In this episode of Color Shift, Nathan sits down with Claire, a Korean adoptee, empowerment coach, and somatic practitioner. Claire shares her journey of reconnection—how exploring the body’s wisd...
Color Shift: Kae
In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees, Nathan sits down with Kae (she/they), an adoptee with Indonesian roots who was adopted at birth in the U.S.Kae opens up about what it means to unpack adoption later in life —...
Color Shift: Fai
In this episode of Color Shift, host Nathan Choi sits down with Fai, a Vietnamese and White adoptee who grew up in small-town Pennsylvania as the only Asian kid around. Adopted at just one month old, Fai’s race and adoption were...
Color Shift: Ezra
In this episode of Color Shift, we sit down with Ezra, a Korean adoptee who was adopted at six months old and grew up in Indianapolis inside a strict, isolating bubble. With no access to peers, friends, or other adoptees, Ezra w...
Color Shift: Keith
In this episode, I sit down with Keith, a transracial and late discovery adoptee who learned at age 33 that he was adopted. As the only adopted child in a family of six, Keith’s world shifted when he uncovered the truth about his beginni...
Color Shift: Abby
In this episode of Color Shift, we sit down with Abby, a Chinese adoptee who has recently begun the vulnerable process of “coming out of the fog.”Abby was supposedly found as an infant at a train station in China...
