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Location
Newton Highlands, MA
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Stewards of Change
What are your domains of INTEREST?
Human Services, Education, Public Health, Public Safety, Health Information Technology, Emergency Services
What are your domains of EXPERTISE?
Human Services
Do you have any OTHER domains of expertise?
Not really a separate domain, but i'm a subject matter expert on child welfare issues.
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Adam Pertman came to Stewards of Change as a Senior Consultant after two successful careers over the last three decades: first as a senior Pulitzer-nominated journalist with the Boston Globe, and then as one of the most highly regarded thought leaders in the child welfare world as head of the Donaldson Adoption Institute (a national nonprofit that he built into the pre-eminent research, policy and advocacy think tank in its field). His work with Stewards – much of it focused on building the organization’s own Institute – includes strategic planning, board and financial development, and a variety of media and communications activities. Pertman has provided hundreds of keynotes, trainings
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TW Interview by Fran Cronin
Why “Adoption Nation” Is Changing—and Keeps Changing
Adam Pertman is a busy guy. Like Woody Allen’s Zelig, Pertman seems to be everywhere at once: lecturing, writing, appearing on the Today Show or NPR. And like a doctor on call, he’s always available to help enlighten the general public about the once-silent world of adoption.
Since writing a Pulitzer Prize-nominated series about adoption for the Boston Globe in 1998, Pertman has transformed his experience as the parent of two adopted children into his life’s work.
His acclaimed book Adoption Nation was first published in 2000; a new edition came out this year with the revised subtitle of "How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming Our Families—and America." As Pertman told me, "I rewrote a big percentage of the book."
For almost a decade, he's served as the executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York City, a nonprofit that’s the go-to organization for adoption-related research and policy. Pertman is also associate editor of Adoption Quarterly, and he coedited the new anthology Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men with David M. Brodzinsky.
At 57, Pertman has enough gray in his floppy hair and Van Dyke beard to convey an earnest man-on-a-mission. He hurri