Meet our board
Gina Martin serves as the Co-Executive Director of MOMS Connect, where she supports families before they face the risk of separation. Her professional focus is shaped by her personal experience as a foster and adoptive mother. After witnessing the trauma of family separation in the children she welcomed into her home, Gina shifted her focus to prevention. She now works to support mothers in rebuilding their lives and accessing the resources they need to keep their children safely at home.
gina martin
Co-Executive Director, Moms Connect
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Foster America
Marie Zemler Wu is the co-founder and Executive Director of Foster America. She previously served as a consultant to child welfare agencies across the nation during her tenure at the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Center for the Study of Social Policy. Marie is a graduate of Macalester College, Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts, and the Harvard Kennedy School. As an adoptee and mother of three, she approaches her work with a mission to see all children rooted in strong families and supportive communities.
Nina Richtman works as the Director of Advocacy for the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), where she leads policy and advocacy initiatives to improve treatment access for individuals with severe mental illness. She began her career as a scientist in agriculture before transitioning to the mental health field in 2019. Nina holds a Bachelors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Masters degree from Iowa State University. She brings over 14 years of lived experience to the board as the parent of two children adopted from the Iowa foster care system.
nina richtman
Founder & Executive Director, Together with Families
Sarah Winograd is the Founder and Executive Director of Together with Families, a Georgia-based organization that walks alongside families facing, or at risk of, child protective services involvement because of poverty. Through concrete supports, relational care, and community building, Together with Families helps families address challenges and prevent system involvement, while training parents, relative caregivers, and youth program graduates to become paid leaders and advocates through its apprenticeship program. She joins the board with ground-up experience building community-based organizations and a deep commitment to family justice and healing.
marie zemler wu
Director of Advocacy, Treatment Advocacy Center
