Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander

Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander, LMFT is a first mother, transracial adoptee, and a licensed psychotherapist who has provided services to all members of the adoption and foster care triads since 2008. As First/Birth Family Specialist at Pact, an Adoption Alliance, Susan focuses on the needs of expectant parents considering adoption, and first/birth families who have placed children for adoption. Susan has served as Board President of On Your Feet Foundation, Northern California and is on the Leadership Team of Adoption Museum Project.

[Photo: An adoption ad of a pregnant person in a white dress holds their belly.]

Ethics Over Economics: Building a Better Adoption System Amid Baby ‘Shortages’

Parker Dockray & Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander

It's undeniable that money and market forces drive the adoption industry. But we can—and must—get beyond "supply and demand" thinking.

Open Adoption Is More Complicated Than Picture Painted by Media, the Industry

Gretchen Sisson & Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander

With National Adoption Awareness Month drawing to a close, we urge viewers to reconsider our culture’s portrayals of adoption. The continual framing of adoption as an unqualified good is not only inaccurate, but also damaging.