The Donna Seebo Show: Human Trafficking

Donna Seebo Interviews the Vance Twins

Human Trafficking – Throughout history, various forms of slavery, by cultures around the world, have been utilized in one form or another. The buying and selling of men, women, and children is big business in our modern world. Recently, here in the Seattle area, a team of traffickers and their victims were brought into custody by four different agencies working … Read More

Twins Found in a Box, Adapting to Adoption by Janine Vance

Twins Found In A Box: Adapting to Adoption by Janine Vance, Story of the Vance Twins

Twins Found in a Box: Adapting to Adoption takes readers on a journey through the ’70s to the ’90s while Janine and her twin come of age after their adoptive father’s traumatic brain injury prompted by his tragic 100-foot fall while hang gliding. Filled with social and cultural commentaries, the book explores the conflict of recovering from a family accident … Read More

Exclusive BBC Interview: Author Janine Vance Talks Candidly

Author Janine (Vance Twins) interviewed by BBC May 2022

Author Janine (Vance Twins) Talks Honestly to BBC About The Challenges of International Adoption BBC Sounds host Beatriz de la Pava talks to two women born in Colombia and South Korea about trying to fit in and discovering more about their roots: “What’s it like being adopted into a country far away from your birth and into a family that … Read More

왜, 어떻게 우리가 사회정의를 외치기 시작했나 – 당신도 할 수 있다. 글쓴이: 밴스 쌍둥이. 전문 기고가.

Jenette and Janine Vance Twins: Writing Sabbaticals & Reiki Retreats for Busy Entrepreneurs & Business Owners

왜, 어떻게 우리가 사회정의를 외치기 시작했나 – 당신도 할 수 있다. 글쓴이: 밴스 쌍둥이. 전문 기고가. 안녕하세요. 이 글은 독자들에게 저와 제 동생이 싸워야 했던 개인적인 도전에 대해 소개하기 위해 쓴 것입니다. 우리 자매는 70년대 한국의 ‘길거리에서’ 미아로 발견됐다고 들었습니다. 입양 기관에서는 ‘고아 증명서’까지 만들어 서류를 첨부했기 때문에 우리는 미국 살던 내내 그것을 사실로 받아들일 수 밖에 없었죠. 다른 많은 … Read More

Janine Vance Participated in the Seattle Asian American Film Festival

Seattle Asian American Film Festival

Author Janine Vance participates as one of the panelists at the 2020 Seattle Asian American Film Festival: Real-Life Journeys and Experiences of Transnational Adoptees. In the documentary, Geographies of Kinship, filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem shares the stories of four adult adoptees who question the policies and practices that led South Korea to become the largest “sending country” in the world. … Read More