Adam Pertman

Adam Pertman is the Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a national nonprofit that is the pre-eminent research, policy, and education organization in its field. Pertman—a former Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist—is also the Associate Editor of the professional journal Adoption Quarterly. In addition to being the author of Adoption Nation, which is considered a classic in the field, he has written many chapters and articles on issues related to adoption and family in books, scholarly journals, and magazines.

Before embarking on his current career, Pertman was a senior journalist with The Boston Globe for more than two decades, covering major events including the O. J. Simpson trials, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mideast peace process, and several presidential elections. He is a member of the Council on Contemporary Families, the editorial advisory board of Adoptive Families magazine, and the National Adoption Advisory Committee of the Child Welfare League of America, among others. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Judy Baumwoll, and their two children, Zachary and Emilia.