2nd Annual BIPOC Adoptees VOICES Conference

The 2nd Annual BIPOC Adoptee VOICES Conference brought together BIPOC adoptees, descendants, and former foster youth from across the country for a powerful weekend of connection, healing, and movement building.

Under the theme “Movement Building Through Connection, Hope, and Healing,” community members engaged in transformative workshops, support groups, plenaries, community building activities, and more —centering the voices and lived experiences of BIPOC adoptees.

This gathering challenged dominant narratives, celebrated identity, and fueled collective action toward justice, equity, and healing.

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The 3rd Annual BIPOC Adoptees VOICES Conference will be held on July 23 – 26, 2026. Stay tuned for details!

BIPOC adoptees have suffered from family separation and ethnic displacement. Many of us are immigrants who have also been separated from our homelands from injustices stemming from imperialism and colonialism. Many of us are Native adoptees who experience an acute kind of loss from the history of violent settler colonialism on Turtle Island that has resulted in familial and cultural loss, the degradation of the Earth, and the continued oppression Native peoples. We stand in solidarity with our Native siblings. Our organization occupies the unceded ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and other tribes whose homes ran along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. We offer our deep respect and solidarity to these communities.