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August 6, 2025 44 mins

NYC author now living in Seattle Claudia Rowe talks about herlatest release “Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care”about a woman who’d been arrested for murder at 16, lived in & out offoster & adoptive homes at 10, has ran away, been trafficked &assaulted while painting a visceral survival narrative showing how the systemchannels children into locked cells and paves a road to reform by exposing abroken system and the searing realities faced by kids in school! Claudia hasbeen writing about the hallways where kids and government clash for 30+ yearsincluding racially skewed school discipline that changed the education laws inWashington State, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Latinogangs, and wrote for the NY Times, Mother Jones, Amazon Original Stories, plusexplains the 3 ways to improve foster care! Check out the amazing Claudia Roweand her latest on all major platforms and www.claudiarowejournalist.comtoday! #claudiarowe #author #NYC #seattle #wardsofthesate #americanfostercare#fosterhome #school #education #washingtonstate #government #schooldiscipline#pulitzerprize #nytimes #motherjones #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify#applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow#mikewagnerclaudiarowe #themikewagnershowclaudiarowe

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