Andrew Bridge

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Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care before earning a scholarship to Wesleyan University and graduating from Harvard Law School. He is a Fulbright Fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writing Resident. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Showtime, The Observer, The CBS Early Show, NBC Nightly News, Time Magazine, PBS, Psychology Today, NPR, and Observer Magazine. His legal career began representing children against the State of Alabama, resulting in the closure of one of the most notorious psychiatric institutions in the country, the Eufaula Adolescent Center. After that, he returned home to Los Angeles as CEO of The Alliance for Children's Rights, defending children at MacLaren Hall, where he was once confined. He won the right for every foster child to speak with their social worker at least once a month. Andrew chaired Los Angeles County's Blue Ribbon Foster Care Task Force, which called for an end to the disproportionate removal of African American babies from their parents. He is the co-founder of National Adoption Day and led California's largest recruiter of LGBT+ foster and adoptive parents. He advises senior federal and state officials on reforming our foster care system. His educational work established New Village Girls Academy, California's first all-girls high school for pregnant and parenting teens. He regularly consults with child welfare systems, children's facilities, and private foundations. As a member of Arizona's Foster Care Review Board, Andrew also advises Arizona's Juvenile Court on the safety and well-being of individual children in the state's care.



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