The [Inclusion] Conversation with Liz Sargent

<p>Welcome to The [Inclusion] Conversation Podcast!</p><p>Our guest this episode is <strong>Liz Sargent, Filmmaker, Writer-Director, and Adoptee</strong>, in conversation with our host, Grace Yung Foster. </p><p>This podcast dives into the world of work, careers, and life for Adoptees, Fosters, our allies, parents, child welfare professionals, policy experts, and all within the Adoptee and Foster&#39;s orbit.</p><p>Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee whose award-winning work as a filmmaker explores themes of adoption, disability, and family. As a writer-director, she brings a distinctive perspective to visual storytelling, drawing from her background as a choreographer to channel complex human emotion. Liz’s personal experiences as the middle child of eleven siblings, along with her intersectional identity, deeply inform her creative vision.</p><p>Her debut feature TAKE ME HOME premiered in U.S. Competition at the Sundance Film Festival (2026), where she received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film went on to screen internationally in Perspectives Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. The project was created with Caring Across Generations, River Road Entertainment, Cinereach, Cyprian Films New York and ALLCAPS. The feature script was a recipient of the SFFILM Rainin Grant in 2023 and won the $1M AT&amp;T Untold Stories prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025.</p><p><strong>TAKE ME HOME</strong> is particularly notable for casting Liz’s cognitively disabled sister in the lead role, an experience she wrote about in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter during the film’s FYC Oscar campaign. Sargent’s proof-of-concept short Take Me Home premiered at the Sundance (2023), won the 2024 Grand Jury Prize at the American Cinematheque PROOF Film Festival (2024), and was featured at the White House for the 25th Anniversary of the Olmstead Act. </p><p><strong>The Inclusion Initiative is also thrilled to share that we are hosting a screening of Liz’s Take Me Home film as a part of our Leadership Summit. We are offering BOGO 50% off tickets to our 2026 Leadership Summit in Washington DC</strong>. We hope to see you there on November 13, 2026. </p><p><strong>Tickets (and scholarship tickets are available - free to anyone who needs them!) </strong>Tickets include:</p><ul><li><p>Admission into the event</p></li><li><p>Networking hour with our leaders (includes light apps and a drink ticket - must be 21 to drink alcohol)</p></li><li><p>A