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When Citizenship Isn’t Enough

by Nona Willis Aronowitz

01.30.15 | 11:15 am

Collier Meyerson has an arresting, deeply personal piece up at The Slice today about the emotional messiness of being a transnational adoptee of color. She and her best friend Sadye are both adopted and both brown-skinned, but there’s a big difference: Collier was born in the United States, and Sadye was born in the middle of a civil war in El Salvador.

Read the piece here.

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Nona Willis Aronowitz Nona Willis Aronowitz is the editor of TPM's The Slice and TPMCafe. Previously, she was an education and poverty reporter at NBC News Digital, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and an associate editor at GOOD magazine. She's written for The Atlantic, Washington Post, NYMag.com, The Nation, The American Prospect, Tablet, and Rookie, among others.