Marikathryn has a lifetime of experience in adoption as an adoptee through closed adoption, and more recently, through her experience as a birthmother when she placed a child with a family through open adoption. While Marikathryn understands adoption most intimately from the perspective of a birth parent, she has great insights to offer the prospective adopting parent. She has worked in adoption for 15 years and is a co-founder of Adoption Choices of Northern California.