SPECIAL THANKS TO MALLORY ANDREWS and Allison Marshall, MSSW students at the University of Texas at Austin, who assisted in the research for chapter 1, “Overview of Intercountry Adoptions.”
The authors wish to thank Heidi Bruegel Cox, executive vice president and general counsel for the Gladney Center for Adoption, and Addie D. Williams, LMSW, JD, president and chief executive officer of Spaulding for Children, for their legal consultation on the development of the policy sections in chapter 3, “Legal and Policy Issues Affecting Transracial Adoption Practice.”
Special thanks to the incredibly talented clinical staff at C.A.S.E. who contributed to this work: Sean Delehant, Lisa Dominguez, Valerie Kunsman, Susan LaVigna, and Laura Arroyo for her administrative support.