Maureen McCauley
Consultant & Course Facilitator
(she/her)
Maureen is the adoptive mom of four now-adult children, two sons born in the U.S. and twin daughters born in Ethiopia, She has lived experience with infant adoption, international adoption, older child adoption, U.S. adoption, and transracial adoption. She also has two granddaughters. Her professional background is in social and educational welfare advocacy, including as former executive director of 3 nonprofits focused on adoption and foster care.
With Adoption Mosaic, she co-facilitates the Conscious Adoption “Seasoned Parents” course, for which she helped develop the curriculum, and was a panelist on “We The Experts: Ally Edition.” She is passionate about understanding and supporting the complexity of adoption, and about partnering with others in the adoption community to support families and individuals.
She has facilitated and presented workshops on adoption in the U.S. and Canada for organizations such as NACAC (now Families Rising), KAAN (Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network), The Barker Foundation, COFFEE (Central Oregon Families and Friends of Ethiopian Ethnicity) camp, East Coast Ethiopian Culture Camp, and more.
She is a writer and editor, including co-editor with two Ethiopian adoptees of “Lions Roaring, Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees.” Her writing has been published in Slate, Catapult, Focus on Adoption, Adoption Today, Adoptive Families of British Columbia, and others. She blogs at Light of Day Stories.
Maureen has been quoted/cited in the New York Times, Seattle Times, Hofstra Law Review, Case Western Journal of Law-Medicine, University of Washington Law Review, Santa Clara University Law Review, Adoptee Rights Law Center, and elsewhere.
She has a B.S. degree from Georgetown University and an M.A. from the University of Maryland. She is a Certified Sage-ing Leader via Sage-ing International, an organization focused on aging consciously and intentionally with joy and contentment. She also has a certificate as an End-of-Life Doula for Companion Pets, partnering with their humans.