Melissa Guida-Richards on Clubhouse

Bio

▪️She/Her
▪️Contributing Editor at The Everymom
▪️Author of WHAT WHITE PARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION, available for preorder now!
▪️Host and creator of the Adoptee Thoughts podcast and Instagram
▪️Transracial Adoptee from Colombia
▪️Found out I was adopted at 19 years old
▪️Words in Zora, Insider, HuffPo, & more
▪️Mom of 2 boys (3 & 5)

AdopteeThoughts.com

Melissa Guida-Richards is an author, adoptee, and advocate based in Pennsylvania. She was adopted in 1993 from Colombia to a family in the USA. Her viral essay, “My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity From Me for 19 Years,” was published in the Huffington Post in April 2019. She soon launched the Adoptee Thoughts Instagram and Podcast to help elevate adoptee voices and educate adoptive parents on the nuances and complexity of adoption.

Guida-Richards graduated from SUNY Fredonia in 2015 with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Criminal Justice. She published her first book, BEDTIME, THE ULTIMATE BATTLE, in January 2020 (Skyhorse Publishing). Melissa has had work in HuffPost, Zora by Medium, Electric Lit, Embrace Race, and more; and has been on podcasts such as NPR’s Code Switch, BBC Radio 4, Strange Fruit, and Do the Work. She has also appeared on panels, such as the, We the Experts: Adoptee Speaker Series, Pretended, and is a contributing editor at The Everymom.