About Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie Rollins is a writer, performer, educator and scholar.

Lisa Marie is currently writing and performing her solo show, “Ungrateful Daughter”, a comedic, but intense land critical ook at one black girls experience of being adopted by a white family in the 1970’s.

Lisa Marie is the Founder and Executive Director of AFAAD (Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora). She is the former Adoption Education Specialist for Pact, An Adoption Alliance in Oakland, CA. (2006-2008).

Lisa Marie is PhD Candidate in African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley where her work focuses on the phenomenon of adoption of black and African children by white parents by examining the insertion of transracial adoption into African Diasporic history and colonial discourse. This work partially examines the concept of diaspora as a useful, healing place for identification for displaced black bodies, and finally, the construction of black women’s bodies during slavery as having an impact on adoption discourse and ideas of motherhood and parenting in the United States.

Lisa Marie was recently selected as one of Colorlines Magazine’s “Innovators to Watch in 2009″ her social justice work around black adoptees and has been been an invited panelist, speaker and performer for a multitude of topics around race and adoption, multicultural identification and the politics of international and domestic adoption. She has been featured on NPR, KPFA Berkeley (3 times), KPFK Los Angeles, Wanda’s Picks and has been featured in many articles on race and adoption

Lisa Marie is available for interviews, speaking engagements and preferably performances. For more information email her directly. lisamarierollins (at) gmail.com