Adopted from China during the One Child Policy, Kira is an adoptee activist, fighting for adoptee rights and to increase adoption education. She is on Chinese Adoptee Alliance’s Communications Committee and has spoken in collaborations with Hate is a Virus, Adoptees for Justice, and BIPOC Adoptees.

Kira advocates for the inclusion of the adoptee community in media & entertainment and connects industry adoptees through the Adoptees in Entertainment Database. She was a mainstage keynote speaker at the 2024 KAAN conference, presenting Critical Conversations About Adoption Media Representation. She was the recipient of Adoptee Film Fest’s Community Impact Award.

Kira has written essays and articles on adoption, as well as a testimony for Voices Against Illegal Adoption’s joint statement that was presented at the UN. She co-created Very Asian Foundation’s guide on Adoptee-Centered Language in Journalism & Child Welfare.

Articles & Essays

• UN Presentation - Voices Against Illegal Adoption - Kira Omans Statement

• Adoptee-Centered Language in Journalism & Child Welfare

• Reclaiming my Ghost Kingdom - Conversation Piece Newsletter

• Letter to my Birth Mother - Love What Matters

• Attachment, Abandonment, and Adoption - One in a Billion

• Tracing my Steps: My Journey with Chinese Dance - Fete Chinoise

• Dear Adoption, I Climbed - Dear Adoption

• Unanswered Questions - Overcoming Odds

Interviews & Podcasts

• Conversation Piece with Patrick Armstrong: The Responsibility of Representation

• Adoptees On

• Unraveling Adoption: Troubling Tropes in Media's Adoption Stories

• Somewhere Between: Advocacy in the Face of Racism

• The Infamous Chronicles: The Over-Sexualization of Asian Women in Pop Culture

• One in a Billion: She Has Overcome

• Somewhere Between

• Umuco Love with Dydine & Alex

• China's Children International

• u2adoption: Get Inspired Series

• Overcoming Odds: Your Past Doesn't Define Your Future

• The Monolid Diaries

• The Rambler

Videos

• BIPOC ADOPTEES: Reclaiming my Ghost Kingdom

• HATE IS A VIRUS: Misconceptions about Adoption

• HATE IS A VIRUS: 3 Ways to Uplift the Adoptee Community

• 5 Things Adoptees Wish You Knew

• 3 Ways to Honor National Adoption Month

• Adoptive Parent Q&A: Part I (Savior Complex, Racial Mirrors, and more!

• Adoptive Parent Q&A: Part II (Birth Parents, the Search, and more!)

• My DNA Test Results

• Movie Review of Instant Family

• Meeting my Biological Cousin