About: Staff

Tara Linh Leaman, J.D., is an educator, community organizer, writer and speaker on the politics of identity, critical race theory and international and transracial/cultural adoption. A graduate of Cornell University and Georgetown University Law Center, Tara has worked nationally and internationally on human rights and education issues. She is currently the Associate Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute based in New York City, and has previously served as Deputy Director at Our Place, DC, a nonprofit serving formerly and currently incarcerated women and their families; as a law clerk for the Honorable Judith Bartnoff of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; as a Program Coordinator at the Institute of International Education in Washington, D.C.; as a Fellow at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa and University of Nairobi in Kenya; as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger; and as a teacher with the Mennonite Central Committee in Zambia. She recently co-founded AmerAsians Building Bridges, Inc., a community-based organization highlighting the experiences of Vietnamese Amerasians in the U.S. and Vietnam. As an African Asian American adoptee, Tara knows well the joys and challenges of claiming more than one transformative perspective.