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Kenan Padgett This month’s Research Volunteer of the month is Kenan Padgett. Originally from North Carolina and currently living in Memphis, TN, you may have overlooked our research librarian if you blinked.  Often quiet and content to sit back and observe, Kenan has a wicked sense of humor.  Who else would name their dogs “Kudzu” and “The Reverend”? She came to DNAngels to help a client of Kate Penney Howard’s. “I'm so glad she stayed on to do research. She has an amazing …

Volunteers of the Month – February 2023Read More

On Sunday, March 11, 2023, DNAngels is hosting an online screening of the documentary Reckoning With The Primal Wound, produced by Rebecca Autumn Sansom and Jill Hawkins, Ph.D. This is the first Adoptee and Birth Mother-produced documentary about the concept of the primal wound, an idea first explored in the Nancy Verrier book by the same name. Sitting down with Autumn, I had so many questions. The first is how to describe the “primal wound” to those who are not adoptees. “Just use the …

Sowing the Seeds of HealingRead More

Hear Peter J. Boni, U.S. Donor Conceived Council President & CEO Tiffany Gardner, DNAngels Executive Director Laura Olmsted, and Right to Know CEO Kara Rubinstein Deyerin as they discuss misattributed parentage experiences (MPEs) on Executive Leaders Radio. www.radioamerica.com/program/executive-leaders-radio …

Executive Leaders Radio 1/29, 2023 11am recordingRead More

Eddie Sobolewski Eddie came to DNAngels after his wife, Ali, found DNAngels while helping him search for his Birth Father.  Eddie was adopted and has known since he was around nine the names of his birth parents. He reconnected with his mother, and something she once said gave him pause as to whether the name given to his birth father was indeed the correct man. He came to DNAngels in June 2021, and within hours, he had the answers he sought; Laura had solved his case. Being the …

Volunteers of the month – January 2023Read More

Lara Schultz Originally from Pennsylvania, Lara Schultz currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. She’s from a large Italian family - she has six siblings, who are all very close.   She’s worn many hats in her lifetime; she was an Industrial Engineer, has her MBA, teaches knitting, and most recently completed the Boston University Genealogical Research course that many of our other Angels and Researchers have completed. “Lara came to us in the summer and has …

Volunteers for the Month – December 2022Read More