I am grateful to have been interviewed on The Mixed Experience Podcast, the top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial & Mixed issues & experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars & regular folks.

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nspired by her own experiences as a mixed-race child in an overwhelmingly white neighborhood and as the mother of children with skin lighter than hers, local author Maria Leonard Olsen has written Not the Cleaver Family: The New Normal in Modern American Families, a resource to the many permutations of family that exist today.

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Maria Leonard Olsen is the author of the children's picture book Healing for Hallie. She also has written the picture book Mommy, Why's Your Skin So Brown?.

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Maria Leonard Olsen is the author of the children's picture book Healing for Hallie. She also has written the picture book Mommy, Why's Your Skin So Brown?.

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In 1961, my parents were forbidden by law to marry in our liberal state of Maryland. Interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states until 1967. My mother is Filipina and my father was a white American predominantly of Irish and English ancestry.

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So happy to be able to chapter my life.  I helped lead a women's empowerment/writing retreat this weekend at the bay.  Really felt great to uplift each other and bring more light and vibration to the world through our collaborations.

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I had the privilege of participating as a panelist at the Mixed Remixed Festival this month.  It was almost surreal to be in the company of so many people of mixed race ancestry. 

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My first visit to the Mixed Remixed Festival in Los Angeles, the largest gathering of mixed race people in the United States.  Inspiring, uplifting, validating, stimulating.

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