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name: Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston
about: Amanda is an author, speaker, licensed social worker, and psychotherapist with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in social work. Amanda has served the adoption and foster care communities through individual and family clinical work, group work, writing and presenting, and working for positive policy change. Her writing and presentations have reached broad audiences through multiple books, magazines, major news and radio interviews, and conferences, and she has engaged with legislators at the state and congressional levels on adoption policy. Amanda founded Pennsylvania Adoptee Rights and Lost Daughters. She co-facilitates an adoption support group for anyone connected to adoption, and is a contributor to Gazillion Voices Magazine an Amanda is an author, speaker, licensed social worker, and psychotherapist with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in social work. Amanda has served the adoption and foster care communities through individual and family clinical work, group work, writing and presenting, and working for positive policy change. Her writing and presentations have reached broad audiences through multiple books, magazines, major news and radio interviews, and conferences, and she has engaged with legislators at the state and congressional levels on adoption policy. Amanda founded Pennsylvania Adoptee Rights and Lost Daughters. She co-facilitates an adoption support group for anyone connected to adoption, and is a contributor to Gazillion Voices Magazine and Social Work Helper. Amanda is best known for her internationally recognized, award-winning adoption blog, The Declassified Adoptee.﻿﻿By the close of 2015, Amanda's writing on adoption will have been published in eight books. Her writing and work focuses on the experience of being adopted, intersecting social justice issues, and adoption community centric/initiated movement toward positive change. Amanda is a Yahoo!Voices featured mom activist and is listed in the Top 20 Adoption blogs on the web by Adoptive Families Magazine. ...more