MAA Team Staff Aleda P. Madison – DE Founder & Adoption Consultant Diana M. DeGroot MBA, LMSW – DE Executive Director Katie Agostino – NY Administrative Assistant Marianne Akers – IL Administrative Assistant Anne Breedlove, MSW – DE Adoption Specialist Adriana Chaves, MS Post Adoption Support Specialist Michelle Coady Carter, BS, JD – IL In House Counsel Michelle Conner, MSW – IL International Adoption Specialist Erica Conte – DE Adoption Assistant Annie Dobies, Ed.D – NY Director of Branch Office – New York State Patti Farrell, MA – DE, NJ, PA SWAN Program Director Beverly Guinto – DE Finance & Project Manager Sarah Hansen, MSW – DE International Programs Director Brooke Henningfeld, M.Ed. Child Advocate Heather Iacono – DE Systems Specialist, Post Adoption Report Coordinator Austyn Lucas – IL International Adoption Specialist Misty Lucas, MS, LPC – IL IL Executive Director/Latin America Programs Director Lisa Riley – IL Adoption Assistant Catherine Robbins – DE Family Engagement Coordinator Katie Schultz, MS – DE International Adoption Specialist Samantha Thomas – DE International Adoption Spec. / Adoption Asst. Lydia Stewart, BA, MA Waiting Child Coordinator Social Workers Brycee Ambrosio, MSW, LCSW – IL Jessica Armato, MPA – PA Margaret Bernstein, LMSW – NY Lisa Bills, MSW, LSW – PA Marty Cardona – NY Pat Comly, MSW, LCSW – NJ Lisa Fabrizio, MSW, LCSW – NJ Jorge Falconi – NJ Heather Frame-Emery, LSW – PA, NJ Erica Fisher-Kaslander, MA – NJ Susan Howton, BSW, MSW – IL Ellen Hurst-Elliot, MA, LCPC – IL Regina Levin, MSW, LSW – DE, PA, NJ Lisa Moore – IL Sara Oglesby, MSW – IL Angela Payne, MSW – IL Mollie Pouska, MSW – IL Sarah Usery, MSW, LCSW – IL Vannessa Vassar-Bush, BSW, MSW, DHCE – PA Kerry Yeldell, MSW – DE, PA, NJ