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Encore rebroadcast: Adoption and trans-racial families

By Connor Cyrus,

Published January 13, 2023 at 4:29 PM EST

Adopted Baby's feet on mothers hands. Horizontal Shot. — This hour, we hear from parents who adopted, and people who were raised in, families of different races.

Encore rebroadcast: Parenting is hard, and when parents adopt children of a different race, it only gets harder. This hour, we're listening back to a show from last year about trans-racial adoption, and what happens when white Vermonters decide to adopt Black children.

We'll hear from an adoption specialist about the process, parents who adopted children from a different race, and the lived experience of one Black woman raised by her white family.

Our guests are:

Kate Van Wagner, options coordinator at the nonprofit Lund
Jessica and Ben Edgerly Walsh, parents
Tese and Maddy Ziminsky, mother and daughter

Broadcast live on Thursday, March 10, 2022; rebroadcast on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, at noon and 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus

Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.

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Matthew F Smith

Originally from Delaware, Matt moved to Alaska in 2010 for his first job in radio. He spent five years working as a radio and television reporter, radio producer, talk show host, and news director. His reporting received awards from the Alaska Press Club and the Alaska Broadcasters Association. Relocating to southwest Florida, he was a producer for television news and NPR member station WGCU for their daily radio show, Gulf Coast Live. He joined Vermont Public in October 2017 as producer of Vermont Edition.

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