About me
Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, he attended Wesleyan University, then graduated from Harvard Law School and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. He began his legal career representing children against the State of Alabama, where his work resulted in the closure of one of the country’s most notorious psychiatric institutions, the Eufaula Adolescent Center. Returning to Los Angeles, he became CEO of The Alliance for Children’s Rights, representing children in the foster care system where he grew up. Andrew is the co-founder of National Adoption Day and New Village Girls Academy for pregnant and parenting teens. As Chair of Los Angeles County’s Blue Ribbon Task Force, he called for an end to the disproportionate removal of Black babies from their mothers. Most recently, he was a member of the executive management team for Illinois DCFS, and with Arizona as his home, he now serves on the Arizona Foster Care Review Board.
His memoir, Hope’s Boy, was a New York Times Bestseller and recognized as a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post. His latest book, The Child Catcher, released in September, is also a National Bestseller and has received the Kirkus Starred Literary Review, the PenCraft Book 1st Place Award for Nonfiction Literary Excellence, and has been nominated for the American Library Association’s prestigious Alex Prize. Publisher’s Weekly BookLife wrote, “Bridge’s most inspiring task is his determination to give silenced children a voice, an opportunity for freedom, and hope for justice.”
