BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.adoptionnetwork.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.1 0// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:d5269d87-2746-4dd6-879b-5ad6db85857a X-WR-CALDESC:REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rhonda-r oorda-author-talk-book-signing-tickets-1990515279785?aff=oddtdtcreator&kee p_tld=true \n\n\nAdoption Network Cleveland and Mac's Backs Books are plea sed to welcome award-winning author and advocate Rhonda Roorda to Clevelan d!\n\nJoin us on Saturday\, September 26 at 2:00 pm for an Author Talk and Book Signing. Rhonda will be sharing her debut memoir\, Torn from the Roo t.\n\nAs a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents\, Rhonda Roorda had to le arn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin was too dark” and if she “acted too white.” She recalls being haunted by feelings of shame and not being enough. Torn from the Root is her illu minating story of identity\, belonging\, and purpose\, laying bare the dee p pain she felt while navigating life as a vulnerable Black girl and how s he healed herself.\n\nRoorda suffered trauma and abuse in her youth\, but she also developed resilience. Eventually\, she resolves to find her birth family and takes readers on her exciting and agonizing journey.\n\nTorn f rom the Root thinks critically about the child welfare system and the long -term impacts of transracial adoption. Roorda helps readers understand her experience\, posing necessary questions about the challenges of transraci al adoption. Her emotional story\, full of wisdom and reflection\, recount s how she accepted the truth of her adoption and found balance\, not disco mfort\, in her own skin.\n\nThis event promises to be an engaging and illu minating session for anyone interested in or impacted by adoption\, foster care\, or transracial adoption.\n\nCredit is available for licensed foste r parents.\n\nThis event is FREE\, but space is limited.\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nRhonda M. Roorda\, M.A.\, is a nationally recognized speaker\, a uthor\, and consultant on transracial adoption whose insights have been fe atured on Good Morning America and ABC News\, in People magazine\, and in the Emmy Award–winning television series This Is Us. A transracial adoptee \, she is the author of the acclaimed In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption\, recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title\, and the coauthor of a groundbreaking trilogy on transracial adoption. Thr ough her writing\, research\, and speaking\, Roorda has become a leading v oice exploring identity\, belonging\, and the lifelong impact of adoption across racial and cultural boundaries. She lives in Michigan with her fami ly.\n\nREGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rhonda-roorda -author-talk-book-signing-tickets-1990515279785?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld =true X-WR-RELCALID:f1b7bac848f671ecf6a284a153bbc23b X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20261101T020000 RDATE:20271107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20270314T020000 RDATE:20280312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0157deb3-3ce7-40df-b37f-6f3041b7758a DTSTAMP:20260724T141642Z DESCRIPTION:REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rhonda-ro orda-author-talk-book-signing-tickets-1990515279785?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep _tld=true \n\n\nAdoption Network Cleveland and Mac's Backs Books are pleas ed to welcome award-winning author and advocate Rhonda Roorda to Cleveland !\n\nJoin us on Saturday\, September 26 at 2:00 pm for an Author Talk and Book Signing. Rhonda will be sharing her debut memoir\, Torn from the Root .\n\nAs a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents\, Rhonda Roorda had to lea rn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my s kin was too dark” and if she “acted too white.” She recalls being haunted by feelings of shame and not being enough. Torn from the Root is her illum inating story of identity\, belonging\, and purpose\, laying bare the deep pain she felt while navigating life as a vulnerable Black girl and how sh e healed herself.\n\nRoorda suffered trauma and abuse in her youth\, but s he also developed resilience. Eventually\, she resolves to find her birth family and takes readers on her exciting and agonizing journey.\n\nTorn fr om the Root thinks critically about the child welfare system and the long- term impacts of transracial adoption. Roorda helps readers understand her experience\, posing necessary questions about the challenges of transracia l adoption. Her emotional story\, full of wisdom and reflection\, recounts how she accepted the truth of her adoption and found balance\, not discom fort\, in her own skin.\n\nThis event promises to be an engaging and illum inating session for anyone interested in or impacted by adoption\, foster care\, or transracial adoption.\n\nCredit is available for licensed foster parents.\n\nThis event is FREE\, but space is limited.\n\n\n\nAbout the A uthor\n\nRhonda M. Roorda\, M.A.\, is a nationally recognized speaker\, au thor\, and consultant on transracial adoption whose insights have been fea tured on Good Morning America and ABC News\, in People magazine\, and in t he Emmy Award–winning television series This Is Us. A transracial adoptee\ , she is the author of the acclaimed In Their Voices: Black Americans on T ransracial Adoption\, recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title\, and the coauthor of a groundbreaking trilogy on transracial adoption. Thro ugh her writing\, research\, and speaking\, Roorda has become a leading vo ice exploring identity\, belonging\, and the lifelong impact of adoption a cross racial and cultural boundaries. She lives in Michigan with her famil y.\n\nREGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rhonda-roorda- author-talk-book-signing-tickets-1990515279785?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld= true DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T160000 LOCATION:Coventry Village Library\, 1925 Coventry Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH 4411 8 US SUMMARY:Rhonda Roorda Author Talk & Book Signing END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR