Activism in Adoption Call for Speakers 2023-2024

Activism in Adoption, On Your Feet Foundation's Educational Platform, is putting out a call for speakers for 2025-26. We are looking for speakers who can connect their lived experiences to greater themes within adoption in ways that can provide our audience a new way of understanding the current adoption landscape, their role in it, and how they can effect positive change and ethical practices in adoption.

The mission of Activism in Adoption is to scaffold marginalized voices in adoption. Speakers should be individuals who have lived experience in adoption, specifically birthparents and adoptees. In rare circumstances, we will invite adoptive parents to join us as speakers or panelists.

On Your Feet Foundation is a small nonprofit organization with the majority of funding coming from small, individual donations. We pay birthparent and adoptee speakers a flat fee of $250. This fee covers the 90 minute session and any planning involved (typically not more than an hour). On Your Feet Foundation will promote the session, help the speaker develop slides, if requested (the slides are then given to our speakers for their own personal use in the future). All sessions are recorded and included as Activism in Adoption's educational content.

Panelists are paid $100. Adoptive parents and adoption professionals will be acknowledged for the donation of their time and expertise.

All sessions take place on Zoom. Sessions are 90 minutes long and are held the last Wednesday of the month at 11AM CST. The format is usually a 60 minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions are moderated by our Executive Director, Alexis Eyler.

Activism in Adoption Speaker Self-Nomination Form

Name

First Name *

Last Name *

Address

Country

Address Line 1 *

City *

State/Province *

Postal Code *

Email Address (Required)

Phone (Required)

Connection to Adoption:

Birthparent
Adopted Person
Adoptive Parent
Adoption Professional
Other

Please note, we prioritize the voices of birthparent and adopted persons. We rarely book and do not compensate adoptive parents or adoption professionals, but thank them for their contributions when their participation is appropriate..

Preferred Pronouns

She/Her
He/Him
They/Them
She/Them
He/Them
Other
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Other

Please list your preferred pronouns if not listed above.

Title of Your Talk (Required)

Race, Resilience, & Relationships (Required)

How does this talk relate to one (or more) of our main themes of Race, Resilience, or Relationships?

One Paragraph Synopsis/Description: (Required)

Who would benefit most from this talk? Why? (Required)

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Professional Affiliations, Licenses, Degree(s), and/or Other Credentials (Required)

In addition to your connection to adoption, do you have credentials specific to your proposal? (ie, if you are discussing adoption-competent therapy, are you a therapist?)

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