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Lori Holden, a veteran parent of two young adults, writes at LavenderLuz.com and hosts the podcast Adoption: The Long View. She’s the author of the acclaimed book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole (recommended by People magazine, of all things!), written with her daughter’s birth mom and featured on adoption-agency required-reading lists across the country.
Her latest book, Adoption Unfiltered, co-authored with adoptee Sara Easterly and birth mom Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, has been read in community by groups like the New York State Judicial Institute, the Amazing Adoption Affinity Group, and adoption agencies and parent groups around the country.
Lori has keynoted and presented at adoption conferences in the US and Canada, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Parenting and Adoptive Families. In 2018, she was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), nominated by Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado.
Lori is recognized as an adoption expert in these ways:
- Honored by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute with the Angels in Adoption® award, nominated by Senator Michael Bennet
- Author of two groundbreaking adoption books, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption and Adoption Unfiltered
- Host of the popular and highly-rated adoption podcast Adoption: The Long View
- Longtime writer at the award-winning adoption blog LavenderLuz.com
- Sought after keynote and workshop speaker at adoption conferences in the US and Canada
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