Melissa Guida-richards is an author, adoptee, and advocate based in Pennsylvania.
Guida-richards is also a contributing editor at The Everymom ..
She has been on podcasts such as NPR\'s Code Switch, BBC Radio 4, The Adoption and Fostering Podcast, and Do the Work, and has appeared on panels such as We the Experts: Adoptee Speaker Series.
Her work has appeared in Huffington Post , Zora by Medium, ElectricLit, and more.
Guida-richards graduated from SUNY Fredonia in 2015 and published her first book Bedtime, The Ultimate Battle in January 2020.
She soon launched the Adoptee Thoughts Instagram and Podcast to help elevate adoptee voices and educate adoptive Parents on the Nuances and complexity of adoption.
Her viral essay, My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity From Me for 19 Years, was published in Huffington Post in April 2019.
She was adopted in 1993 from Colombia to a family in the USA.
Melissa Guida-richards is an author, adoptee, and advocate based in Pennsylvania
