Who I Am & How I Got Here
Hello Everyone! Thank You so much for stopping by my page.
My hope is for you to find this page is a helpful guide to your current, recent, or prior situation.
I am a mother, a researcher, a legal self-advocate, and a relentless truth-teller.
I did not choose this work because it was interesting or convenient.
I chose it because it became necessary.
My life changed the moment I learned (firsthand) how easily systems meant to “protect” can instead harm, silence, and destroy families.
Like many parents, I trusted institutions. I believed courts followed the law, that child-welfare agencies were accountable, and that due process was more than a slogan.
I was wrong.
When Child Protective Services entered my life, it was not through fairness, transparency, or lawful procedure. It was through misinformation, unchecked authority, and decisions made without evidence, without proper process, and without regard for fundamental parental rights. What followed was a long, exhausting fight through juvenile court, administrative systems, and layers of bureaucracy that often operate as if rules do not apply to them.
I learned quickly that survival required more than compliance.
It required education.
I taught myself the law. not casually, but rigorously. I studied family law, constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law, and the mechanics of how courts actually function behind the scenes.
I read statutes, rules, transcripts, dockets, and case law.
I learned how funding structures influence outcomes.
I learned how language is used to obscure accountability.
I learned how parents are pressured into silence, exhaustion, or surrender.
And I learned that what happened to my family was not an anomaly.
It was a pattern.
Alongside the legal battles, I faced what many parents never see documented in court records:
the emotional toll on children,
the long-term trauma,
the financial devastation,
the strain on marriages,
health, and identity.
I lived the reality that systems rarely acknowledge that families are not abstractions, and children are not case numbers.
I am not a lawyer. I am something the system often underestimates: an informed, organized, persistent individual who refused to accept unlawful outcomes as inevitable.
Today, I use what I have learned to expose systemic failures, educate parents and advocates, and build tools that help people understand their rights before they are forced to learn the hard way.
My work sits at the intersection of lived experience, legal research, and accountability.
I focus on facts, records, procedures, and the truth...especially when the truth is uncomfortable.
This platform exists for one reason:
to make it harder for injustice to hide behind complexity.
If you are here because you have felt powerless, confused, or dismissed by a system that was supposed to help...you are not alone. And if you are here because you believe transparency, law, and accountability still matter then you are in the right place.
I did not arrive here by choice.
I arrived here by necessity.
