September 30, 2024
Hosted by Mikki Shepard
Guest Information:
Scaling her lived experience as an adoptive mom of a sibling pair, Marcy Bursac advocates for the more than 100,000 children in the U.S. foster care system that are waiting to be adopted through her free app, children’s book, how-to book, book of real life stories, monthly podcast, speaking engagements, and TV, radio, magazine, and podcast appearances.
In addition to her advocacy, Marcy conducts research on the barriers non-kin adoptive families face when adopting through the foster care system, further deepening her commitment to supporting and understanding the needs of these families.
Marcy was interviewed and announced the winner of the Pilot Pen G2 Overachievers Grant on The Kelly Clarkson Show on October 26th, 2023. She is a recipient of the Angels in Adoption® Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute from Missouri with Senator Blunt, she was crowned United States of America’s Mrs. Ohio 2022, she founded the organization The Forgotten Adoption Option, and she is the creator of the Foster Care Adoption Awareness Reading Program which began in elementary schools and is scaling to K-12 classrooms nationwide.
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