Trista Goldberg, born Nguyễn Thi Thu 1970 in Vietnam, was adopted at the age of 4 through Holt International Agency and brought to the United States into a loving family in Pennsylvania. Around the age of 10, she was shown her adoption papers which opened up Pandora's box and would haunt her into adulthood. In 1999, the internet boom enabled Trista to explore Vietnam online and learn about the country and culture. Through Yahoo chat groups she met other Vietnamese adoptees from around the world who would motivate and support her search to find her birth family. Trista shares the ups and down of her journey that successfully led to reuniting with her birth mother and siblings. In 2003, Trista started a nonprofit organization, Operation Reunite, to provide information and support to other Vietnamese adoptees going through a similar journey and to build a DNA data bank for families to use to try to identify loved ones.
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#51 Ngày Về Của Bố
#50 2023 Mỹ Việt Story Slam
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#48 Buried Ruins
#47 Live Episode! Making Before Me w/Lisa Phu
#46 Bonus Episode: Before Me
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#43 Bonus Episode: Healing Thru Writing
#42 - Ambiguous Grief
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#40 - 2022 Mỹ Việt Story Slam
#39 - The Mountains Sing
#38 - Cooking From Memory
#37 - Three Funerals For My Father
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