Activists
Founder of the Adoptee Mentoring Society
Angela Tucker
2022
In 2013, Angela Tucker located her biological parents. Using the film she had taken during the reunion, her husband Bryan Tucker created CLOSURE which streamed on Hulu in 2014, on Netflix from 2015 through to 2017 and on Amazon Prime from 2016 until 2021.
After touring with CLOSURE in 2013, Angela began a video series called The Adopted Life Episodes in which teenage transracial adoptee talk about their experiences.
She launched a podcast called The Adoptee Next Door and in 2022 founded the Adoptee Mentoring Society, a non-profit focuses on adoptees mentoring adoptees.
In 2023, Tucker published You Should Be Grateful (2023) which centres on the experiences of adoptees, how they are often told they should be grateful, and how the insistence they be grateful can be silencing.