Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Aug 5, 2026 · 54 min · 13 segments
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She has a PhD in Instructural Leadership and decades of experience across public.
She specializes in developing culturally-centered, trauma-informed strategies for both pre-service teachers and foster and adoptive communities.
She's also the founder of STL 234 Outreaches and a frequent speaker on reviving resilience in our children, drawing from her professional research and her personal journey as an adoptive parent.
I am very excited and I feel very honored to be around such an amazing community.
And I should tell the listeners, she did give us permission to call her Brandy.
We're all about making sure everybody gets their props when they've done the hard work to earn that PhD.
So we want to make sure that we acknowledge that, but also that she's given us permission to call her Brandy.
She has a PhD in Instructural Leadership and decades of experience across public.
She specializes in developing culturally-centered, trauma-informed strategies for both pre-service teachers and foster and adoptive communities.
She's also the founder of STL 234 Outreaches and a frequent speaker on reviving resilience in our children, drawing from her professional research and her personal journey as an adoptive parent.
I am very excited and I feel very honored to be around such an amazing community.
And I should tell the listeners, she did give us permission to call her Brandy.
We're all about making sure everybody gets their props when they've done the hard work to earn that PhD.
So we want to make sure that we acknowledge that, but also that she's given us permission to call her Brandy.
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