Author and transracially adopted person Kevin Hofmann was born into the racially-charged Detroit of 1967 to a white mother and a Black father, placed into foster care, and then adopted by a white minister and his wife, who were also the parents of three biological children. Hofmann’s talk is based on his best-selling memoir, Growing up Black in White, which tells his story through the lens of hope and promise. In this session, he shares the choices his family made in order to connect him to the Black community, which included moving the family from a white neighborhood to one that was predominantly Black. Kevin provides adoptive parents with a roadmap to help their children build strong racial identities based on self-respect instead of outside judgment.