While reflecting on her theater piece, Placing Home, which centers birthmother stories, adoptive mother Katy Finn unpacks the powerful role adoptive mothers can play in shifting the pervasive adoption narrative. Katy’s talk centers around three questions: What role does the adoptive mother play in shifting the narrative? Where can these shifts happen? And finally, Why does it matter? Katy uses examples from her own journey in adoption to demonstrate why this shift in thinking is so necessary, and addresses how both prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents can take clear action toward empowering birthparents and adopted people to bring their stories to the forefront of the adoption landscape.