Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is a public policy professional specializing in adoption reform and maternal health. Experienced in writing, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement, with a passion for developing meaningful policy changes at the intersection of data and powerful stories. She is a Midwesterner thriving in the California sun, a mother, writer, musician, and believer in the underdogs’ fight for justice and dignity.

“Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her vote will go toward helping forward the time when life’s Bread, which is home, shelter and security, and the Roses of life, music, education, nature and books, shall be the heritage of every child that is born in the country, in the government of which she has a voice.”

HELEN TODD, 1910