We hope you will join DNAngels for a private dinner event* during the Untangling Our Roots conference. Friday, March 31 at 7:00PMMussel & Burger Bar9200 Taylorsville RoadLouisville, KY 40299 Joining us will be a special guest (Leeanne R. Hay) speaking to us about the history of hidden parentage and how the truth can positively impact our lives and future generations. RSVP with payment by: March 1st, 2023 Dinner $25.00 due with reservation.[includes: …
Blog
DNAngels Announces 2023 Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2023 DNAngels Announces 2023 Board of Directors CARBONDALE, Ill. – DNAngels has announced its 2023-2024 Board of Directors: Founder and Executive Director Laura Olmsted, Treasurer Christine Mancinas, Secretary Kelly Grace Hickey, Advisor Christopher Smith, Liaison to Angels and Intake Aimee Rose Haynes, and Advisor Dr. Nicole Price are all remaining in their positions. In January, long-time President Scott Horwitz stepped down, and Vice-President …
<strong>DNAngels Announces 2023 Board of Directors</strong>Read More
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 …
Under the Halo – Volume 24
You Can't Erase Me I did a Webinar this afternoon for our partners at Right to Know with my friend and fellow Angel Ashlee. We practiced on Friday, and I’ve looked at my DNA several times over the past few days. Friday, everything was good, and last night when I logged off around 10 pm, everything was good. This afternoon, I logged on about 20 minutes before the Webinar and pulled up my DNA, and… something was missing—or rather, SOMEONE. TWO, someone’s to be specific. Specifically, my top two …
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 …
Volunteers of the month – January 2023
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 …
