Leigh Johnston

Social Media Manager| Board Member

My name is Leigh Johnston and I was adopted from Wuhan. I grew up in Massachusetts and Hawaiʻi before attending Smith College. In 2018, I moved to Taiwan to pursue a Fulbright and then to Shanghai to work at NYU Shanghai. In Shanghai, I led an adoptee group for other adoptees who made the choice to come back to China to work, study, and live. I would love to be a resource for other adoptees considering moving back to China. I am currently living in the UK, pursuing a master’s at the London School of Economics.

There is almost nothing that brings me more joy than connecting with adoptees and building adoptee community. As CCI’s Social Media Manager, I hope to help create engaging content for adoptees to connect with and learn from as we grapple with the complexities of our adoptee identities.