About

RiffSpace is building community-centered infrastructure for adoptees of color to connect, heal, organize, and thrive on their own terms.

What We’re building

  • Meaningful connection and community resilience

  • Meetups, organizing, and mutual support

  • Trusted resource-sharing and knowledge exchange

  • Location-based discovery and relationship-building

  • Collaboration across lived experience, identity, and geography

  • Long-term healing and belonging through community-centered technology

Our goal is to create long-term digital infrastructure that empowers adoptees of color to build relationships, access support, reclaim identity, and strengthen community across generations.

Why This Matters

Most digital platforms were not designed around the safety, dignity, privacy, or lived experiences of marginalized communities.

Adoptees of color often experience:

  • isolation and disconnection

  • lack of representation and culturally relevant support

  • unsafe or extractive online spaces

  • difficulty finding others with shared lived experience and identity

RiffSpace exists to build alternatives rooted in trust, autonomy, and collective care. We are creating long-term community infrastructure — not just visibility — where adoptees of color can connect, organize, heal, and build belonging on their own terms.

  • RiffSpace is founded by adoptees of color and led by BIPOC women. Our work is rooted in lived experience, community accountability, and intentional design for historically underserved communities. We believe adoptees of color deserve spaces built with us — not just for us — and we are committed to building resilient, community-centered infrastructure that supports healing, connection, identity, and self-determination for future generations.

  • Empathy, integrity, autonomy, and creativity shape everything we build. We believe technology should foster dignity, strengthen human connection, and empower self-determination — creating long-term community infrastructure rooted in healing, collective care, and resilience for adoptees of color

  • RiffSpace was built to help adoptees of color find connection, belonging, and community. Founded by adoptees of color Liana Soifer and Jodi Kim, RiffSpace brings together lived experience with backgrounds in technology, innovation, and health to create community-centered infrastructure intentionally designed for us, by us.

    For too long, our communities have relied on platforms that were never built with our needs, privacy, safety, or lived experiences in mind. Deeply personal stories and vulnerable conversations have too often existed in spaces that felt extractive, disconnected, or unsafe for adoptees of color.

    So we asked ourselves: what would it look like to build something different? Something rooted in trust, dignity, autonomy, and collective care?

    The answer became RiffSpace.

    By combining our experience across technology, community-building, innovation, and health, we are building a digital ecosystem where adoptees of color can show up fully as themselves, reclaim identity, find support, and build lasting community on their own terms.

    RiffSpace is more than a platform — it’s long-term infrastructure for healing, connection, and belonging.

Who We Are