Interviews

• Love What Matters
  • ‘They Hid My Colombian Culture.’: Woman Who Didn’t Know She Was Adopted Until 19 Is Now Advocating For Adoption Reform
• The Times-Tribune
  • Secrets and sisters: After DNA links them, women hope to meet birth mom in Colombia
• Tamron Hall
  • My Mom Kept My Adoption a Secret for 19 Years
• Brut- America
  • This transracial adoptee has a message for adoptive parents
• Adoptees On
  • 205 Melissa Guida-Richards
• The Shameless Mom Academy
  • 625: Melissa Guida-Richards: What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption
• Tamron Hall Show
  • My Mom Kept My Adoption a Secret for 19 Years
• People
  • Why ‘Colorblindness’ Doesn’t Work for Transracial Adoptions — and How to Get It Right
  • Thinking About Adoption? Here’s What to Know
• NBCLX
  • Colin Kaepernick’s Story Shows Why Adoptive Parents Need to Talk About Race

• Good Day L.A.
  • Melissa Guida-Richards talks about Adoption
  • National Adoption Month Panel
• Racially Responsible Podcast
  • 029 White Parents & Transracial Adoption
• DNA Clarity and Support Podcast
  • Exploring identity crisis with late-discovery adoptee Melissa Guida-Richards s02:e01
• Do the Work
  • Family Secrets: Melissa & Paula

• Strange Fruit Podcast
  • What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption
• When They Were Young
  • Ep. 6 Melissa Guida-Richards: Unpacking Abby Johnson’s comments
• Fancy Free Podcast
  • Melissa Guida-Richards on How to Ask for Help

• The Adoption Advocacy Podcast
  • Episode 6: Melissa Guida-Richards- Late Discovery Adoptee
  • Stephanie Oyler, Melissa Guida-Richards and Ferera Swan

• The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
  • Melissa​

• BBC Radio 4: Bringing Up Britain: (start at 22 minutes in)
  • Liar, Liar

• NPR’s Code Switch Podcast
  • Transracial Adoptees and Their Racial Identity and Sense of Self

• Invisible Not Broken Podcast
  • Bipolar, Postpartum Depression, PTSD, and Migraines: An Invisible Illness Podcast

Articles My Interviews Have Appeared In:

• Yahoo! Life
  • Transracial adoptees share what they wish their parents had known: ‘The color-blind approach is unhelpful and harmful’
• The Washington Post:
  • Finding the missing piece: What happens when adoptees become parents
• We Need Diverse Books
  • When Tigers Smoked: Exploring My Korean Culture Through Folklore