Published Work

In articles published on Huffington Post and Medium, April candidly furthers the conversation on healthy identity development, honoring complex relationships, navigating differences of race, class, and culture, and understanding transformational love.

April is also a regular contributor to Chronicle of Social Change and Fostering Families Today.

Healthy Identity Development

• Trans-Racial Adoption and Birthdays: A Complex Equation

• Talking Adoption, Identity and Independence with Darryl McDaniels, DMC of RUN DMC

• Adoption and Holidays: Unwrapping and Understanding the “Gifts”

• The DNA in Me!

• I’m Adopted, Happy Birthday to Me!

• Exploring Adoption and Identity: #BornAndMade

• Thinking about Summer Fun, Back-to-School, and Adoption

• Thinking about Independence, and the Freedom to Explore my Identity, on the 4th of July

• Thinking about Steve Jobs and Adoption

Honoring Complex Relationships

• Sorry Mitsubishi: Separating Siblings is Not Cute!

• Adoption and New Beginnings

• Thinking About Adoption: Lucky Me?

• Thinking About the Christmas Story and Adoption

• 6 Key Factors to Consider for Open Adoption

Navigating Differences of Race, Class, and Culture

• Adoption in America: The Good, the Bad, and the Path to Reform

• Thinking about Black History Month and Transracial Adoption

Understanding Transformational Love

• How to Love a Transracially Adopted Person

• Great Countries Have Strong Families

• Thinking about My Mom — and My Birth Mother — on Mother’s Day

• On Father’s Day Thinking of the Dad Who Raised Me — and the Father Who Might Not Know I Exist