Welcome to the Bridgetown Church podcast. For the month of May we are honoring Asian American

Pacific Islander Month. Each week members of our church family will be sharing stories

that acknowledge and celebrate AAPI history from their lived experiences and the world at

large. Bridgetown Church is taking the month of May to celebrate Asian American Pacific

Islander Month or AAPI Month. My name is Kylie Logan and I'm the Communications Manager

at Bridgetown and I lead the Communications Subcommittee for our Racial Justice Committee.

This week we're going to be talking about Asian American adoption. I identify as Chinese

American and I was born in China adopted by a white couple in Utah and I have with me

Emily Gross. We are both Asian American adoptees. Emily why don't you tell me a little bit

more about yourself. What do you do? What do you identify as a little bit about your family?

Yeah I consider myself biracial. My biological mother is from South Korea and my biological

father is from the Island of Saipan which is in Micronesia. I currently work at a medical network

and I also have an older brother who is adopted from South Korea. Yeah that's awesome that both

you and your brother are adopted from Korea. It's cool that you're able to share that with him

and your family. What was that experience like growing up as Korean adoptees and a trans-racial

home? What was your adoptive parents attitude towards your birth culture in the home? How did they

celebrate that with you guys? Yeah just tell me a little bit more about that.

So growing up I didn't notice much of a difference between my parents and I. I grew up understanding

that I was different. I always knew that I was adopted from South Korea. My brother,

from a very young age we were both aware that we were adopted and seemingly different. We knew

that we were different color skin tone than our parents and that we were adopted but the idea of

I guess the thought patterns were like the identity of that wasn't all quite there of yeah I'm

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