This Month’s Volunteer of the Month is someone we have recognized before, but she is so amazing, we could really recognize her EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. She wears so many hats, from overseeing all the new Angels and Researchers that apply, to working grandparent cases, to speaking and exhibiting on our behalf, to making shirts and badges for conference attendees… Yes, I’m talking about Aimee Rose Haynes!! Laura would tell you, “Aimee has always been a standout in the crowd and has previously won …
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Volunteers of the Month – April 2023
The April 2023 Dnangels volunteers of the month are Robin Bowen and Linda Grinnell. Robin Bowen Early to bed, early to rise .. that’s our Robin Bowen. Assistant Research Team Lead Katharine Saunders says, “Robin gets so much research done on a case in the morning before I can even drag myself out of bed! Robin is very present when she is assigned to cases and always has insightful questions and excellent suggestions. She is good at building a rapport with clients and is also a skilled …
Volunteers of the month – March 2023
The March 2023 Dnangels.org Volunteers of the month are Christine Brown and Lauren Nicole. Christine Brown Christine’s profile perhaps sums up her sense of humor the best, “Women are AngelsAnd when someone breaks our wings, our spirit, or our hearts… We simply continue to fly… on a broomstick…We are flexible like that …” When asked what the Angels thought about her,Case Manager Rachel Kiley Trout said, “Don't let Christine's quiet, unassuming nature fool you, she is a force to be …
Volunteers of the Month – February 2023
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 …
Sowing the Seeds of Healing
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 …
Executive Leaders Radio 1/29, 2023 11am recording
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 …
