Traveling My Roots

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Chronicling one adoptee's experience at the intersection of genealogy, travel and identity.

About Lisette Austin

Writer, podcaster, traveler. Host of the award-winning Globetrotter Lounge Podcast, interviewing women who have found creative ways to travel more. A Black biracial adoptee in reunion with biological family, I am currently traveling my roots.

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