A Discussion about Adoption and Racial Healing featuring Dr. Gina Samuels - University of Chicago Professor and Director of the Roots Unbound Black Adoption Project - alongside performer and artist Gabriel Gutierrez The evening will showease poetry and visual art from local Illinois adoptees in Roots Unbound, alongside dance by Gabriel Gutierrez: a Chicago native, adult adoptee, reconnecting P'urhépecha Native, and founder of MOFundamentals, the only foster and adoptee-led dance program in the United States. Poetry and movement are woven into the performance itself, as storytelling and art come together to affirm lived experience, build connection, and imagine more healing futures.
