
Annelise Blanchard
Chinese Province: Guangdong
American Hometown: Seattle, WA
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to meet others who share a similar passion about the cultural differences that Chinese Adoptees face.
Favorite Cookie: chewy chocolate chip!
Hobbies: running, baking, and drinking coffee!

Brianna (Andy) Whitehead
Chinese Province: Anhui
American Hometown: New York, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to be able to meet and inspire other adoptees and help cultivate stronger sense of community and pride within the adoptee affinity.
Favorite Cookie: sugar cookie
Hobbies: basketball, playing with my dog, or hanging with friends

June Futterman
Chinese Province: Jiangsu
American Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? As a child, my parents were very active in FCC and those times were very special to me; now as a young adult I want to continue being active in this community.
Favorite Fruit: mango
Hobbies: singing, hiking, broadway musicals

June Teichmann
Chinese Province: Hubei
American Hometown: Montville, NJ
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to unify the Asian adoptee community and help adoptees explore the Asian-American side of their identities.
Favorite Cookie: fluffy shortbread cookies
Hobbies: ice skating, hiking, StarCraft

Lucy Murray
Chinese Province: Jiangsu
American Hometown: White Plains, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? I want to connect with other adoptees, and to become more involved in the adoption community as a whole.
Favorite Cookie: oatmeal chocolate chip
Hobbies: writing, cooking, sleeping, and hiking

Maya Delany
Chinese Province: Hunan
American Hometown: Albany, CA
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to soothe the frustration that was and still is experienced in most rooms, while reading most narratives, and seeing most images, I crave a space in which fellow adoptees are eager to channel past and current discontent into something productive and/or unifying.
Favorite Cookie: Milanos
Hobbies: watching/making/conceptualizing films, volleyball, listening to Another Round podcast, watching Insecure & Gilmore Girls, daydreaming in Bryant Park, taking mini golf extremely seriously

Mira Jeffrey-Craft
Chinese Province: Jiangxi
American Hometown: Weston, CT
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to allow asian adoptees the ability (through events and media, etc.) the chance to explore not only themselves but others & emphasize a strong sense of community.
Favorite Cookie: sugar cookie
Hobbies: cooking, Soccer, Tennis, listening to/producing music, hanging with friends

Rhianna Hopkins
Chinese Province: Shanghai
American Hometown: Queens, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? I feel immense gratitude towards FCC; they have created a big support system for me that I continue to use in my current life and I want to contribute my ideas to make FCCNY even better.
Favorite Cookie: gingerbread
Hobbies: playing the oboe, clarinet and alto saxophone, making films, cooking and eating, watching Parks and Recreation from beginning to end

Sabrina Stanger
Chinese Province: Hunan
American Hometown: New York, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? I love being a part of the adoptive community and want to take on a bigger role in the community.
Favorite Cookie: chocolate chip
Hobbies: volunteering, baking, coloring, dancing, exploring New York City/D.C., and watching Netflix!
Sophia Trantzas
Chinese Province: Chongqing
American Hometown: Westchester, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to help my fellow adoptees, from my own experiences, with issues and questions they may be dealing with and to help improve communication between them and their parents.
Favorite Cookie: chocolate chip
Hobbies: cooking, eating, volunteering, watching movies

Susanna Lee McNatt
Chinese Province: Jiangsu
American Hometown: Westchester, NY
Why are you on the Adoptee Board? to connect with other adoptees and promote awareness for Chinese-American identities through fun and educational events!
Favorite Cookie: anything vegan!
Hobbies: music, theatre, travel
Lisa Gibson
Chinese Province: Hubei
American Hometown: New York, NY
Why are you leading the Adoptee Board? to bring more adoptee representation and leadership to the community in the form of adoptee organized events and planned projects that are relevant to us.
Favorite Cookie: warm chocolate chip pecan
Hobbies: traveling to new places and being outside
To contact the Adoptee Board, email LisaGibson@fccny.org or AdopteeBoard@fccny.org