Katie is an international adoptee from Colombia who grew up in the Ann Arbor area. She is a Psychiatric Care Worker for a large medical facility in Michigan, and frequently works with adopted youth in crisis and educates families about adoption trauma to help them gain a broader understanding of the adoptee experience. Katie is also a Certified Life Coach and has been active in the Colombian adoptee community for 25 years. She has been searching for her own biological family for more than three decades and helps other South American adoptees by using the skills she has learned through that journey. Katie has two children and enjoys being in the sun, dancing, music and reading in her free time. She is eager to help AAOM grow into a community well suited to adoptees in our state and grow our collaborative efforts with birth parents, adoptive parents and other allies in our collective voice.