Born Across Borders: How International Adoption is Reshaping the Asian American Community

PRESENTERS: JEFF YANG, COLUMNIST, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE; DEANN BORSHAY LIEM, FILMMAKER, "IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE; STEPHANIE WANG-BREAL, FILMMAKER, "WO AI NI MOMMY"; LISA CHUNG, EDITOR, PATCH.COM; KATIE BRENNER, STAFF REPORTER, FORTUNE

Each year, over 30,000 babies are adopted abroad and brought to the United States, a third of whom come from Asian countries. The total number of Asian international adoptees is in now in the hundreds of thousands. Michigan has ranked as a top-five state in annual intercountry adoptions for the past decade, joining midwestern neighbors Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin as states with some of the nation's fastest growing populations of Asian adoptees. As their numbers grow and more internationally adopted Asians emerge in high-profile positions--such as Hoon-Yung Hopgood, Michigan's first Korean American state senator--their unique experiences demand greater recognition. In this interactive town hall, we'll look at how the phenomenon of intercountry adoption is reshaping the Asian American community--and the definition of "Asian American" itself.