UFA is a bipartisan coalition of child and family advocates who seek policy solutions to create a more compassionate and just approach to child welfare that focuses on supporting rather than separating families.

Andrew C. Brown, JD, is Vice President of Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he oversees legislative strategy and led a bipartisan coalition to pass reforms to Texas's child protection laws. He joined TPFF in 2018 as a Distinguished Fellow in Child and Family Policy. As an attorney, he has represented children in the child welfare system, advocated for the rights of parents, and helped build families through adoption.

Andrew earned his BA magna cum laude in political science from Baylor University and his JD from Southern Methodist University. His work on international adoption law and child welfare issues has been published in leading legal journals and media outlets.

Kathleen Creamer, JD, is Managing Attorney of the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she leads a team that uses holistic family defense to help parents maintain custody of or reunite with their children. Kathleen joined CLS as a staff attorney in 2006, and was Director of Legal Services at Our Place, DC. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Michael Ryan of the D.C. Superior Court Family Court.

Kathleen led the coalition that developed and lobbied for the passage of PA’s Healthy Birth for Incarcerated Women Act, and served on PA’s Joint State Government Commission’s Legislative Advisory Committee on Children of Incarcerated Parents. Kathleen is a member of the Statewide Children’s Roundtable, the PA Child Welfare Council, and the American Bar Association’s National Alliance for Parent Representation. Kathleen graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and earned her JD from the University of North Carolina.

Chris Gottlieb is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Family Defense Clinic at the NYU School of Law, where she teaches law and social work students to protect the constitutional rights of families against unwarranted surveillance and separation. Chris’s scholarship focuses on parental rights, family regulation, and strategies to advance racial justice in the child welfare system. She is co-counsel in the landmark lawsuit Gould v. The City of New York, a class action challenging searches by child protective services that violate the Fourth Amendment.

Chris clerked for Judge Fortunato P. Benavides of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is a recipient of the Kathryn A. McDonald Award for Excellence in Family Court and NYU’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. Chris holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and a JD from NYU.

Brandon J. Logan, J.D., Ph.D., is the Executive Director of One Accord for Kids, a non-profit organization in Texas that promotes community-based solutions. Brandon has served as the executive director of 2INgage, the Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) for foster care, and as the Director of the Center for Families & Children at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Brandon began his career in child welfare as an attorney, representing parents and children in child welfare courts throughout Texas as a Child Welfare Law Specialist.

Brandon earned his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University. He holds a law degree and doctorate in human development and family studies from Texas Tech University, where he also taught courses in child welfare policy, community building, and family dynamics. His academic work includes child maltreatment, abuse trauma and treatment, and family and father engagement.

Nora McCarthy is the Founder and Director of the NYC Family Policy Project, which explores and builds evidence, through original research, data and policy analysis, for the policy visions of parents and young people impacted by the child welfare system in NYC. For 16 years, Nora was founder and director of Rise, a NYC advocacy organization led and staffed by parents impacted by the child welfare system.

Nora edited the citywide youth newspaper New Youth Connections (NYC) and a magazine by teens in foster care, Represent; wrote the Upstream City column for The Imprint; and has written for Newsday, Slate, The Appeal and Child Welfare Watch. Nora is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and serves on the board of the International Parent Advocacy Network.

David M. Meyers is the Principal Shareholder in the Law Offices of David M. Meyers, where he serves as a national consultant, trainer and attorney advocate in California child welfare cases. David co-founded Dependency Legal Services, a non-profit that oversees the representation of parents and children in Sonoma, Marin, Stanislaus, Yolo, Placer, and Solano Counties. He served as a Senior Attorney with California’s Administrative Office of the Courts, Center for Families, Children and the Courts, where he developed statewide curriculum for attorneys in juvenile law practice, and represented the CA judiciary on state and national boards.

David is a consultant with the American Bar Association’s National Resource Center for Juvenile and Legal Issues and a member of their National Alliance for Parent Representation. He holds a BA in journalism and music from the University of Florida and earned his JD from the University of Arizona.

Michael Ramey has been the President of the Parental Rights Foundation since June 2023. He began with ParentalRights.org, the parent organization of the Foundation, as Director of Communications and Research in 2008 and was promoted to executive director in 2017. He holds a B.A. in Foreign Language (Spanish) from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.  Michael and his wife, Rachel, live in Winchester, Virginia, and have five beautiful children.

Shrounda Selivanoff is the Chief of Parent Representation Initiatives at the Washington State Office of Public Defense Parent Representation Program. Her prior work includes serving as the Director of Public Policy at the Children’s Home Society of Washington, and roles at the King County Parents for Parents Program, Perinatal Treatment Services, and University of Washington Fetal Alcohol Drug Unit Parent-Child Assistance Program.

Shrounda is the recipient of the 2023 Shine Your Light Award, 2021 Casey Excellence for Child Award, and 2021 Unsung Hero Award from the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. She is a member of the Washington State Parent Ally Committee, a founding member of the Birth Parent National Network, Executive Board member of Family Treatment Court of King County, Co-Chair of the Department of Children, Youth and Families Oversight Board, and Co-Chair of the Racial, Equity and Impact Citizen Review Panel. She provides a parent lived experience perspective on state, local and national platforms, all in pursuit of justice and family preservation.