Dear Birthmother
Kathleen Silber was born and reared in Stockton, California, graduated from the University of California at Davis and received her Master's degree in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.  She is nationally known for her pioneering work in open adoption.  Kathleen and her husband and two children live in California, where she is Associate Executive Director of the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill.Phylis Speedlin, a native of Steubenville, Ohio, attended the Presbyterian School of Nursing in Pittsburgh and received her nursing degree from Incarnate Word College in San Antonio.  After four years as a U.S. Army nurse, she took a law degree and practices now in San Antonio.  She has two daughters who entered her life through adoption.