HOW WE STARTED

Torie is a biracial Black woman who was placed into a white adoptive family through private domestic adoption as an infant. She grew up in a predominantly white town in Northern Kentucky where she navigated feeling isolated and alone in her racial identity.

Over the years, Torie began to ask questions and explore her own feelings around adoption. In 2018, Torie began to share her adoption story publicly through her Instagram micro-blog Wreckage and Wonder. Through her online presence she connected with transracial adoptees and found a community that understood her complex identity.

In 2019 she turned her blog into a small business, Wreckage and Wonder, LLC and began providing educational workshops and consultations as well as speaking at conferences and agencies about transracial adoption, racial identity development, anti-racism, and the history of child welfare and adoption in the U.S.

Today, Wreckage and Wonder, LLC is expanding to more holistically impact the adoption and child-welfare industries at each level: adoption and child welfare policy, prospective adoptive and foster parent preparation, transracial adoptee and foster youth post-placement support, and family preservation.

We believe any program, agency, or initiative that provides adoption and foster-care based services should also be equally invested in abolishing the systems of oppression that make family separation possible in the first place.

That’s why Wreckage and Wonder, LLC is dedicated to ending the need for family separation. Adoption and foster-care are short-term solutions to social inequities and community crisis. Its time we start creating long-term social change that helps families thrive.

Learn more about what’s next for Wreckage and Wonder, LLC and join the community!