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Amy Parmenter is a candidate for PhD at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  She specializes in learning and development, and has coached adults and facilitated professional workshops for over fifteen years.  Amy's career in education reform has provided her the opportunity to serve as a classroom teacher, curriculum developer, coach for teachers, professional development leader and principal intern.  Her research on the identity development of experienced teachers led to her interest in how adoptees negotiate identity throughout their life course, particularly the role "adoption reunion" plays in that process.    


Amy is a reunited adoptee. Her own lived experience coupled with her study as a doctoral student has helped her understand adoption reunion as a developmental process.  Adoption reunion, mistaken at times as an endpoint, is a dynamic process of development within a complicated social network.  Understanding adoption reunion as developmental has the potential to help adoptees and anyone involved in reunion navigate relationships more effectively, and negotiate a sense of identity while minimizing feelings of guilt and shame and maintaining a healthy mindset.




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Amy
adopted.identity.blog@gmail.com