Our Team
HANNAH, FOUNDER
Hannah lives in Chicago, but she is a desert girl at heart, with her husband, twin girls, Ezra + Olive, and their winsome goldendoodle, Hadley. She loves queso dip a little too much. A photographer, designer, and creative. She started this site to form a community where stories from all sides of the triad can be shared, community can be built and transformation can happen.
CHRISTINA, WRITER
Christina Vance loves mornings with lots of sunshine and coffee with lots of cream Midwest native, Florida dreaming. She's a believer in the power of dry shampoo, kind words and chips & salsa. Saved by grace and passionate about adoption. She's married to her college sweetheart and mama to 3 sweet, funny (and always wild) boys. Most of all she loves finding community in transparency & linking arms with other women to walk through the struggles & joys we face bravely together.
LAUREN, WRITER
Lauren lives in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. Wifey to John, stay at home mama to Luca, and their fur baby Australian Shepherd mix, Roo. She is a lover of coffee (most always with cream) and Mexican food. A Northern girl through and through she loves spending time outside no matter the season. She has a deep passion for adoption and the community she found through her own adoption process. She hopes this site will encourage, inspire and more than anything assure others they are not alone.
BrANDI, WRITER
Brandi is a transracial adoptee, adoptive mama, foster mama, you know just a mama… Brandi lives on the North Shore of Boston. She loves LOVE, people and strong coffee. She feels the weight of balancing many hats with her partner in crime and true love, Daniel... The two of them own a business together and relish filling their days capturing love behind their lens in all different settings. They also have three incredible kids, the first of whom came to them via adoption. She’s their passionate, bright, and spicy Latina daughter. Her story has brought so much healing for Brandi, not to mention this daughter’s amazing birth-parents, making their “extended” family quite the tribe. Their second child, a son, is currently Brandi’s only-known blood relative and his joyful, and charming ways are making it easy for Brandi to love her Korean heritage. And most recently added their foster-son “honeybear”, a full and mighty personality in a tiny brave body. Brandi is excited to share from her many crossing roles in the adoption triad, and believes as the many stories of this blog wash over each other, we are growing stronger. You can find Brandi and all her “Tribe” is up to at www.ebersoletribe.com along with instagram @ebersoletribe
KIRA, WRITER
Kira is an adoptee who recently reunited with both sides of her biological family after living a closed adoption her whole life. She lives in the hot desert of Phoenix, AZ with her husband of 7 memorable years. She is a stay at home mom with their miracle boy, Beckett, who was born at 29 weeks gestation and brought their daughter, Brooklyn, home through adoption in 2016. She also works part time as a Social Media Manager for a local adoption agency. Photography is her addiction; writing is her therapy; working out is her cure. She loves to open up her world in hopes to help shed light and bravery at the times most needed.
JESSIE, WRITER
Jessie Mattos is a birthmom from Orlando, Florida, who has a passion for people, really good chicken wings, and will be the first to tell you if you have something in your teeth (in the nicest way possible!). She's married to her best friend, Gabe, and is a stay at home home to Gabriel. She is a University of Florida alumna and has been known to cut a rug or two. Jessie is the type of friend who will never leave your side and when she's not spending time with her family, she loves to explore her hometown and immerse herself in the flavors of the city. Although she's been a birth mom for eight years, Jessie has recently found her voice and her "people" within the adoption community and hopes to use this platform to remind others that they are not alone.
SHARDAY, WRITER
Sharday is a wife to one and mom to two residing along the southern coast of California. She is an early riser, daily coffee connoisseur, interior design enthusiast, and lover of all things fall. She is a transracial adoptee who is inviting that voice within to rise up storyteller and desires to champion and advocate for those in this triad community in hopes of adding more leaves and seats to our extended table to hear others stories rise up as well.
ChristA, WRITER
Christa is a wife, mom through international adoption, total coffee snob, Disney obsessed, and believes most life lessons can be learned from Mary Poppins. She and her husband are both former social workers turned writers, and she’s doing all the things she said she never would like homeschooling, eating gluten and dairy free, and using essential oils like a total hippie. Christa is the author of the workbook Before You Adopt: A Guide To The Questions You Should Be Asking, and is passionate about sharing the joy and pain of adoption and foster care. She believes in sharing authentically, thinking holistically, and is a total introvert and processor through words. A born and raised Texan, she’ll never say no chips and salsa and will always pay extra for guac.
Follow Kindred
ON INSTAGRAM
