This is a space for mixed/multiracial and transracial adoptee folks to explore our lived experience being part of multiple racial communities. As mixed/multiracial and transracial adoptee folks, we can explore the relationship, connection and disconnection we may feel to our identities, family, friends and community as well as the resiliency we hold that is unique to our experience in being connected to multiple racial and cultural groups. In this space we will work together to affirm one another, better understand ourselves and our community, explore our identities, and the systems that impact us and our mental health, such as colorism, heteronormativity, cisnormativity, racism, sexism, fatphobia, and other systems that impact us in the world. In understanding these systems as mixed/multiracial folks, and following the murder of George Floyd, we can work to understand our place in social movements when social and historical trauma continues.
We acknowledge that colorism shows up in mixed spaces and we commit to actively co-creating a space where all mixed folks, not just those mixed with white, are able to show up.
The group will be facilitated by:
Nina Hernandez Beithon (she/her)
-Nina works as the Diversity Liaison Counselor at Student Counseling Services. Nina is a trauma informed therapist who brings anti-oppressive, body based, and systems thinking lens to the work and centers healing and community wisdom. Nina identifies as a mixed kiddo (Mexican with Indigenous Ancestry and White). Other identities include cis woman, polyamorous, bi/queer, fat, able-bodied, spiritual, mother, sister, daughter, partner.
Dan Piñon (she/her)
Dan works as an intake counselor and case manager at Student Counseling Services. Dan identifies as a biracial, queer, pan sexual, cis latina ( specifically the Zapotec people), therapist currently working at student counseling services. Dan is a trauma informed therapist that holds a foundation in intersectional feminism, relational cultural theory and collectivism practices. Additionally, she is a dog owner, partner, sister, culture bearer (bead weaving), tattoo enthusiast and cloud grazer.
Group will be held virtually on Wednesdays from 12-1pm in the Spring, beginning March 1st through April 26th.
Please sign up for us to contact you and if you are interested in the future.
If you have questions about the group please feel free to contact Nina at
beith009@umn.edu 