Attention Donor 3046: Your Daughter Made A Podcast To Find You
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Anya Steinberg s podcast, He s Just 23 Chromosomes, is one of two grand prize winners in the collegiate edition of NPR s Student Podcast Challenge.
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Updated April 22, 2021 at 8:29 AM ET
Anya Steinberg remembers the exact moment she discovered a family secret. It was in an elementary school biology lesson about genetics. My dad, who I thought was my biological dad at the time, was 50% Korean. But I m 50% Korean, Steinberg says, and I was like 50 doesn t make 50 because my mom s not Korean at all.
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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This morning, we re going to introduce you to one of the grand prize winners in NPR s Student Podcast Challenge. She s a senior at Colorado College. And in her story, she explores a family secret and how the discovery changed her whole outlook on who she is and what she wants to do with her life. NPR s Elissa Nadworny visited her on campus in Colorado Springs.
ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: When Anya Steinberg was a little girl, she got the first hint of this big family secret about her identity. The man she thought was her father, her mom s husband, actually wasn t. She told us she started to unravel this fact in elementary school, when she learned about genetics.
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