Born In June Raised In April: What Adoption Can Teach the World

By April Dinwoodie

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Nationally recognized thought leader, April Dinwoodie, hosts a personal journey while exploring her adoption experience. We follow her as she examines her efforts to find love, identity, family, and connection. Each month April will candidly interview, discuss, and unravel, all matters surrounding adoption.

Episode Date
Setting Our Holiday and Community Tables with Melissa Guida-Richards
Dec 01, 2025
Behind the Mask: Belonging, Identity, and Community with Melissa Guida-Richards
Oct 22, 2025
Back to School with Student Questions & Inclusive Classrooms
Sep 25, 2025
Back to School, Back to Truth: Conversations on Race, Adoption & Journalism with Ahna Fleming and Libby Hobbs
Aug 22, 2025
Blended Together: The Beauty of Belonging and The Freedom to Be
Jul 16, 2025
Truth, Timing & the Ties That Bind: La Tika Jeffery's Journey to Her Father of Origin
Jun 20, 2025
Mothering Out Loud: Stacey Gatlin on Advocacy, Identity, and the Yes We Adopt Village
May 15, 2025
Chapter One and the Innocent People Project with Jeff Forney
Apr 24, 2025
Discussing Luck, Burdens & Blessings in Adoption with the Transracial Journeys Community
Mar 27, 2025
How to Love a Transracially Adopted Person: Unlocking a Deeper Connection
Feb 13, 2025
Chosen, Searching, and Seen: The Community We Need in Adoption
Jan 30, 2025
December 2024: Adoption & Evolving Traditions
Dec 23, 2024
November 2024: Who is Around Your Holiday Table?
Nov 27, 2024
October 2024: Adoption, Costumes and Code-Switching
Oct 21, 2024
September 2024: Moving with Confidence & Clarity
Sep 24, 2024
August 2024: Adoption on MY Terms: Language and Agency For Adopted Persons
Aug 29, 2024
July 2024: Freedom, Family, & VP Kamala Harris
Jul 25, 2024
June 2024: The Father of All Holidays
Jun 16, 2024
May 2024: Mothers' Day & Adoption Reflections with JuneinApril
May 14, 2024
April 2024: I'm Adopted & I Cry A Lot (April Showers Bring May Flowers)
Apr 29, 2024
March 2024: Four Women Connected to Adoption
Mar 29, 2024
February 2024: How to Love a TRA: "She Cried"
Feb 29, 2024
January 2024: The Intersection of Social Media & Adoption
Jan 31, 2024
My Holiday Wishlist in 2023
Dec 26, 2023
November: A Seat at the Table
Nov 29, 2023
Wearing the Mask, Birthday Edition
Oct 30, 2023
Going back to School with JuneinApril
Sep 30, 2023
Always Learning, Always Growing with School psychologist, Dr. G
Aug 29, 2023
July 2023: Sweet & Special Conversations with Nieces & Nephews
Jul 26, 2023
June 2023: An Ode to the Only Dad I've Ever Known, Tom-Dog
Jun 30, 2023
Putting Puzzles Pieces Together w/Family of Origin
Jun 23, 2023
May 2023: An ode to Sandra D
May 24, 2023
April Showers Brings May Flowers: Exploring Emotion, Environment, and Elevation
Apr 29, 2023
Family Connections, Luck & Where it All Started with Madeline Bell
Mar 22, 2023
A Look Back on 7 Years of Born in June Raised in April Part 2
Feb 28, 2023
A look back on 7 years of Born in June, Raised in April Part 1: How It Started
Jan 31, 2023
December 2022: The gift of Nathan Ross
Dec 24, 2022
A Journey of Sisterhood and Adoption with Cassandra and Julia
Nov 29, 2022
Birthdays, Masks, and Bullying: A personal conversation with JuneinApril
Oct 25, 2022
September 2022: Talking with Steve Wyche
Sep 29, 2022
All things Adoption and Back to School with JuneinApril
Aug 29, 2022
The intersection of Freedom & Adoption with Milton Washington
Jul 28, 2022
June 2022: Fatherhood, Trauma, and Resilience with Derek Clark "The Rapping Dad"
Jun 28, 2022
Mother's Day and Adoption with Amira Rose Davis
May 30, 2022
April 2022: "Ask Me Anything" Edition
Apr 27, 2022
We're Adopted Lucky Us? A conversation with Susan Ito
Mar 29, 2022
Love as a Verb with Hannah Jackson Matthews and Bret Matthews
Feb 21, 2022
2022: Reclaiming the Calendar with Adoptee Advocate, Haley Radke
Jan 26, 2022
Adoption, Identity & Traditions with La Tika Jeffery
Dec 22, 2021
NAAM 2021: Making Room for Adoption at the Family Table
Nov 19, 2021
Adoption, Identity and the Masks we Wear with Terrence Coffie
Oct 27, 2021
"Back to School" with Nam Holtz
Sep 21, 2021
Talking Trauma and Adoption with Dr. Bruce Perry
Aug 29, 2021
An Urgent Conversation About Education with Cami Anderson
Jul 29, 2021
Surviving the White Gaze with Rebecca Carroll
Jun 08, 2021
All You Can Ever Know about May with Nicole Chung
May 07, 2021
Dawn is April Fresh: Sisters in Adoption
Apr 24, 2021
March 2021: Adoption: What's Luck Got to do with it? A Conversation with Julie Young
Mar 25, 2021
No Reason at All: Christian and Anni on Love and Adoption
Feb 27, 2021
January 2021: Our Visceral and Cellular Relationship to Adoption with Michaela Pereira
Jan 27, 2021
2020: A Year of Making and Breaking Traditions
Dec 09, 2020
November 2020: Foster Care and Adoption Around the Thanksgiving Table: A conversation with Rob Scheer
Nov 10, 2020
A little B-Day Q&A with June in April
Oct 27, 2020
Adoption, Identity, and Inter-generational Family Impact w/ Kevin Booker Sr. and Jr.
Sep 25, 2020
Back to School: Continuing to education on adoption, identity, and family with Kendra Anderson
Aug 19, 2020
The Intersection of a Pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and Adoption: July 2020
Jul 14, 2020
Talking Transracial Adoption, Identity, Family, and Black Lives Matter with Phil Bertelsen
Jun 27, 2020
Mom and Me Part 2
May 09, 2020
Two Aprils, One Conversation About Adoption, Foster Care, Identity, Family, and a Pandemic
Apr 25, 2020
I'm Adopted, Lucky Me?: A Conversation with Graciela Asher
Mar 11, 2020
Talking Love, Class and Culture with Hilary North-Ellasante
Feb 25, 2020
June in April in January: A conversation with host April Dinwoodie
Jan 25, 2020
Special Advocacy Podcast: NY State Restores Adoptee Rights
Jan 14, 2020
A Spirited Conversation About Adoption, Identity, and Family with Tony Shellman
Dec 21, 2019
Talking Adoption, Identity, and Family with Chef Marcus Samuelsson and guest-host Louis Johnson Jr.
Nov 06, 2019
Happy Birthday to Us!: A Conversation with Marcus Schmidt
Oct 08, 2019
What's in your Knapsack? A conversation about adoption, identity, family, and culture with Allison Treviño
Sep 17, 2019
Adoption, Identity, and Pass the Broccoli with Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao
Aug 07, 2019
Exploring Freedom, Independence, and Adoption with Ridghaus
Jul 04, 2019
A Conversation about Adoption, Identity, Family, and Father's Day with Bryan Post
Jun 16, 2019
Adoption, Identity, and Mothers with Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez
May 13, 2019
Exploring Adoption, Identity, and Family
Apr 18, 2019
Celebrating the Women of Born in June, Raised in April
Mar 18, 2019
A Conversation about Adoption, Identity, Family, and Love with Darryl "DMC" and Zuri McDaniels
Feb 14, 2019
Exploring Beginnings and Endings - Reflections and Resolve
Jan 12, 2019
Adoption, Identity, and Community Throughout the Year: A Conversation with Amy Ginther
Dec 11, 2018
November: Talking Adoption, Foster Care, Identity and Innovation with Sixto Cancel
Nov 12, 2018
Happy Birthday to us! Talking Adoption, Identity and Family with Zara Philips!
Oct 15, 2018
Exploring Adoption, Identity and Family with Brothers Michael and Mark
Sep 17, 2018
Talking Adoption, Identity and Family with Rock Wilk
Aug 06, 2018
Exploring Independence, Identity and Adoption with Advocate Tim-Monti Wohlpart
Jul 03, 2018
Talking Father's Day, Family and Faith with Steve Pemberton
Jun 08, 2018
Talking Mother's Day and Adoption With Rachel Noerdlinger
May 09, 2018
A Conversation With Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Apr 23, 2018
Reflections on Adoption and Women's History
Mar 25, 2018
How to Love a Transracially Adopted Person: An Intimate Interview with an Ex
Feb 16, 2018
On Air Planning For 2018
Jan 23, 2018
A Child is Born: Adoption at Christmas
Dec 22, 2017
Adoption at the Thanksgiving Table with Anne Heffron
Nov 08, 2017
October: Birthdays, Masks and #FOMO w/ Filmmaker Phil Bertlesen
Oct 04, 2017