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Workshop Ideas
- The Power of Your Story
- Why Genetic Idendity Matters
- Direct-to-Consumer DNA Test – Now What?
- Best Interest of the Child
- Family is AND not OR
- It’s Time to Tell
- Restorative Justice and Genetic Identity
- Cognitive Dissonance in Parents
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Prior Speaking & Presentations
“Identity: Are We There Yet” with CUB – Concerned United Birth Parents.
Poster Presentation, “Cognitive Dissonance (CD), Misattributed Parentage (MP), and the Best Interest of the Child” with National Society for Genetic Counselors.
“Speaking the Same Language” with Untangling Our Roots.
“Unknown Family Ties: How to Navigate Parentage Disclosures with Empathy and Care” with RootsTech.
“Why Genetic Identity Rights Matter” with Adoption Knowledge Affilaites.
Poster Presentation: “Cognitive Dissonance (CD), Misattributed Parentage (MP), and the Best Interest of the Child” with National Society for Genetic Counselors.
“Summit Think Tank: A Call to Action” with Untangling Our Roots.
“Living with the Loss of Genetic Continuity” with CUB – Concerned United Birth Parents.
Plenary Speaker, “Genetic Identity Rights In Adoption & Assisted Reproduction: Ethical & Psychological Implications,” Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA).
“Marcie & Kara: Untangling Our Roots” with NAAP – National Association of Adoptees and Parents Happy Hour.
“Leading By Example Through Transparency: Your Donor-Conceived Child’s First Lesson in Trust” with ASRM – American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
“The Intersectionality of Misattributed Parentage Experiences” with NAAP – National Association of Adoptees and Parents Happy Hour.
“ASRM 2021 Panel: Open-Identity Gamete Donation: What Are the Children Saying?” hosted by Jillian Phillips
Media Appearances
“Right to Know,” Family Twist Podcast, 19 December 2023.
“The Gift – Race,” BBC Sounds, 4 October 2023.
“Autonomy, DNA Surprises, and Barbie: What’s the Connection?,” Severance Magazine, 31 July 2023.
“Her At-Home DNA Test Revealed a Huge Family Secret,” by Tamron Hall, 24 October 2022.
“EPISODE 7: ‘Right to Know’ nonprofit helps victims of fertility fraud,” by Samana Sheikh, 19 Oct 2022.
“DNA Results Changed Their Lives” by Racquel Williams, Bridging Philly, 18 Oct 2022.
“Woman Discovers Her True Ethnicity” by Isiah Factor Uncensored, Fox Soul, 10 Oct 2022.
“Finding Out You’re Not Who You Thought You Were,” by Jane Adams Ph.D., Psychology Today, 30 Sept 2022.
“I thought I was biracial my entire life” by Jane Ridley, Insider, 18 Aug 2022.
“Iowans describe DNA surprises and praise a new state law protecting victims” by River to River, NPR, 22 July 2022.
“‘Frustrated.’ Proposed Fertility Fraud Laws in NY Legislative Session” by Gary Craig, Democrat & Chronicle, 2 June 2022.
“Fertility Fraud Bill Sent to Governor’s Desk After Almost Unanimous Support,” by Max Tedford, KWWL NBC, 24 May 2022.
“DNA Sleuthing Led to Lawsuit Against Controversial OB-GYN,” by Gary Craig, Democrat & Chronicle, 28 February 2022.
“In Olympia, magic mushrooms are a no-go, and missing middle house pushes forward,” Soundside, KUOW, 9 February 2022.
“Washington State Eyes Criminalizing ‘Doctor Conceived’ Fertility Fraud,” The Crime Report, 3 February 2022.
“New Bipartisan Measures Provide New Safeguards for Fraudulent Fertility Information,” Michigan House Republicans, 1 February 2022.
“Washington Lawmakers are Considering Criminalizing Fertility Fraud – but what exactly is that?” Soundside, KUOW, 31 January 2022.
Pulled By the Root with Heidi Marble, Alesia Cohen Weiss & Kara Rubinstein Deyerin, 8 Oct 2021.
“DNA Kit and a Genetic Identity Shift” by Kate Murphy, Kate Murphy Therapy, July 2021.
Everything’s Relative with Eve Sturges, Baby, You’ve Got a Right to Know!, 20 Aug 2021.
The Bradley Hall Show with Bradley Hall, Right to Know Founders Kara Rubinstein-Deyerin and Alesia Weiss, 19 July 2021.
“Your Voice Matters – Advocacy: Misattributed Parentage Experiences” by Kara Rubinstein Deyerin, Severance Magazine, 28 June 2021.
“How an Iowa Victim of Fertility Fraud Untangled the Mystery of his Birth and Found New Purpose, The Des Moines Register, 13 May 2021.
Becoming the Best Version of You with Maria Leonard Olsen, Women Who Help People Who Have Discovered Misattrbuted Parentage, 30 April 2021.
“Bill Would Make Fraud in Fertility Treatments a Crime,” by Rod Boshart, The Gazette, 2 March 2021.
“Fertility Doctors Used Their Sperm to Get Patients Pregnant. The Children Want Justice” by Katie Mc Bride, Vice News, 6 January 2021.
“Donor Deceived: Woodinville Woman is Seeking to Change Fertility Fraud Laws,” by Laura Guido, The Woodinville Weekly, 25 November 2020.
I Want to Put a Baby In You with Jennifer White and Ellen Trachman, NPE (Not Parent Expected) Kara Rubinstein Deyerin, 3 June 2020.
“The Right to Know” by BK Jackson, Severance Magazine, 7 January 2020.