Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker combines storytelling, research, and advocacy to reveal how systems and personal narratives shape identity, family, and belonging. She is the CEO of the Adoptee Mentoring Society, the first research-informed mentorship program created by adoptees, for adoptees. A nationally recognized thought leader on adoption, race, and identity, Angela has spent nearly two decades reshaping how America understands the adoptee experience and its connection to justice and inclusion. She’s the author of You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Beacon Press, 2023), featured in The New Yorker, The Seattle Times, and Culture Study. Her life and work have appeared on Netflix, CNN, NPR, and Red Table Talk, and she’s consulted for NBC’s This Is Us and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill.