OHIO

Angela Laman, MA, LSW
Ohio Program Director

FLORIDA

Mindy Bisignano, MSW, LCSW
Florida Program Director

Annyse Gross
Director of Outreach and Marketing

Karen Baldwin, L.C.S.W., R.P.T.
Social Worker

NEW YORK

Flory G. Herman, Esq.
General Counsel

Michael Hill
IAATP Project Lead

Sue Kolock, BSW
Adoptive Parent Department Supervisor/Family Advoc

Sarah Rohde, LMSW
Adoptive Family Social Worker and Family Advocate

Sue Shaw, BS
Birth Parent Caseworker

EXECUTIVE STAFF

Michele Fried
Founder & CEO

Lori Craig, BS
Executive Assistant

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Naomi Wiseman
Administrative Assistant

Zack Fried
Receptionist / Intake Worker
Adult Adoptee Support Group Leader

Anna Steinberg
Office Support / Post Adoption Correspondence

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION SUPPORT STAFF

Susan Thomas
Nepal Adoption Specialist

CONTRACT STAFF

Flory Herman is a former pharmacist with a doctorate degree in pharmacy from the University of Kentucky, 1982. She graduated law school from the New York Law School (1988 cum laude) and was admitted to the New York State bar in January 1989. Her prior experience includes medical malpractice litigation, and most recently, one of the most successful private adoption law practices in Western New York. She is a proud adoptive mother and has been a member of the prestigious American Academy of Adoption Attorneys since 1994.

Flory oversees Adoption S.T.A.R.'s agency assisted private adoption track. Flory works hard to implement and maintain up-to-date practices in assisting adoptive parents with effective networking and advertising, to enable them to make that special connection with prospective birth parents.

Flory also executive produced and directed the documentary-style film "I Have Roots and Branches"... Personal Reflections on Adoption, which received a 2004 Film Advisory Board award of excellence, recognized world-wide for quality family/children's entertainment.

Flory is always awed by the miracle of adoption, having experienced it both professionally for so many years, and personally. Flory's focus is often on the "faces of adoption" i.e. the children, adoptive parents and birth families of adoption, promoting adoption reform and educating society to share her "celebration of adoption". As she puts it, "We want children to know that if they were adopted, it is a wonderful lifelong journey. Let us all celebrate the roots from which they come and the branches that mold them into who they are and where they will go."

Flory lives in E. Amherst, NY with her husband Steven, her two children Rachel and Adam, Spot (a dapple Daschund) and Etoile (a very skinny Italian Greyhound). She loves to cook, watch others exercise and movies with subtitles.