Ann "Fenglan" Boccuti founding member and East Coast Director of Chinese Adoptee Links International Teen Advisory Board
At our November Global Adoption Awareness book-reading event, Ms. Jennifer "Baoyu" Jue-Steuck, a founding member of the Chinese Adoptee Links, shared her personal experiences of growing up as a Chinese adoptee. Today, we are honored to introduce Ms. Boccuti, a director and founding member of CAL's International Teen Advisory Board, which is made up of teen adoptees and their siblings who want to empower others and to create a global community of teen leaders.
As one of the Board Directors, Ms. Boccuti has helped to brainstorm, create, and vote on events worldwide. She also represents CAL as a G2 Global Girls Ambassador for the East Coast and will travel with Ms. Jue-Steuck this summer meeting and visiting with Chinese Adoptees in England and Ireland.
Ms. Boccuti is 14 years old and a 9th grade student at Penndale Middle School in Lansdale, PA. She has been representing her school in Color Guard Competitions for the past 3 years. She also enjoys playing the piano.
Sally Fessler President of the Triangle Area Families with Children from China
Ms. Fessler serves on the board of Triangle FCC and publishes a weekly bulletin related to Chinese culture and adoption.
She and her husband David Kirkpatrick have a 10 year old daughter Grace Yan Chun, who is from Nanning, Guangxi. In 2005, they went back to China for a heritage tour with their adoption agency, Holt, and were delighted to experience more of China, including a visit to Grace's orphanage and foster family.
Sally has been a Peace Corps Volunteer teacher in Kenya, an occupational therapist in Massachusetts and North Carolina, and is now a part-time reference librarian in Durham. She has a BA from Oberlin College and Masters degrees from both Tufts University and UNC. She is happy to be here tonight to support Duke China Care!
Diane B. Kunz Executive Director at the Center for Adoption Policy
Dr. Kunz's impressive educational pedigree includes a JD from Cornell University and a Ph. D. degree from Yale University, just to name a few. She has worked as an associate at White & Case and at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlettas, then as an associate Professor of History at Yale and an adjunct Professor of History and International Relations at Columbia University. She has served as the Executive Director at the Center for Adoption Policy since 2002, as a convener of the Center for Adoption Policy Annual Adoption Conferences (which are held together with New York Law School) since 2004, and as an expert consultant on International Adoption since 2007.
Her publications include The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis, a winner of Robert Ferrell and Myrna Bernath prizes; Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Diplomacy, as well as articles in the London Times. She is currently working on Parents Without Borders: a History of U.S. Intercountry Adoption and Gay and Lesbian Adoption: A New American Reality.
Furthermore, she is the mother of eight children, four of whom were adopted from China's Non-Special Needs and Waiting Children programs.
Elena Rue international photo-documentarian
Elena Rue is a 2003 graduate of Kenyon College, where she studied anthropology and photography. Since graduating, Ms. Rue has completed internships at the Maine Photographic Workshops and DoubleTake Magazine and has participated in several projects at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
In recent years, Ms. Rue's documentary work has focused on adoption and the changing face of the American family. Included in this body of work are international, interracial, single, and gay and lesbian adoptive families in Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, and North Carolina.
As a 2006 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow (through Duke University), Ms. Rue spent 9 months in Ethiopia working with a local non-governmental organization called Hope for Children, documenting the lives of orphaned children living in group homes. She is now working for the Literacy Through Photography program at the Center for Documentary Studies.
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