This discussion will explore how being separated from birth parents affects adoptees at different stages of their lives. The facilitator will discuss how this early trauma manifests in various ways as adoptees grow from infants to adults; including forming relationships and understanding their identity. Through expert insights and personal stories, this discussion will reveal the long-term effects of early family separation and how adoptees cope with these complex experiences over time.

About Astrid
Astrid Castro (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Adoption Mosaic. Adoption Mosaic is an adoptee-led, BIPOC woman-owned business that seeks to build an inviting adoption conscious community by providing innovative adoptee-centered programs and support. Astrid has a degree in sociology with an emphasis in adoption. Since 1992, she has traveled the country to present workshops on transracial parenting and talking with children about adoption, to lead adoptee youth groups, and various other workshops focusing on adoption. Astrid has also worked in both the private and public sectors of various adoption organizations. Astrid’s life-long interest in adoption is rooted in her own adoption at the age of four from Colombia (along with her older sister). She has been in reunion with her birth family in Colombia since December 2011.