Victoria (Torie) DiMartile is a biracial Black transracial adoptee. She was adopted by a White family in Kentucky through domestic private infant adoption and grew up in a predominantly White town, school and neighborhood. Without significant access to her community of origin, she felt like she was straddling two worlds. After college, she began to explore the unaddressed impacts of her adoption story. Now, she uses her background in Anthropology and Sociology, her current doctoral studies on transracial adoption, and her personal experiences to blog, speak, and educate on the topics of positive racial identity development, transracial parenting, and issues of racism in the adoption industry.
It’s her passion and hope that the experiences that have brought her difficulty in life might be used to help adoptive parents become better advocates for their child or help an adoptee feel less alone.
Torie currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana where she is completing her Ph.D in Anthropology. She can be found on the Instagram platform @wreckageandwonder where she micro-blogs and shares resources with the adoption community.