When SEEDS, the Society for Ethics for Egg Donation and Surrogacy, decided it needed standards for its industry members (surrogacy and egg donor agencies), it asked Diane to be its chair. Diane is a respected leader in the field of assisted reproduction, both as an agency owner and a legal expert. Indeed, she is a pioneer in the surrogacy field, and she has won landmark cases for CFC clients.
Diane founded CFC on the principle of that everyone can build a family. To this end, she has been active with Men Having Babies since it was founded, and she is a founding member of its Board of Advisors. She was also the first member of Men Having Babies, when asked to make a pledge on behalf of CFC to the GPAP-II program, to offer a full pro bono journey to qualifying prospective dads. (Her logic was: our goal is to make their dream come true, right?)
Diane decided to become a single parent after her first marriage did not survive fertility challenges. She adopted a baby from a Russian orphanage – a decision she describes as “the best thing I ever did.” After subsequently meeting and marrying her current husband, and with the image of the orphanage children etched indelibly in her memory, Diane and her husband chose to return to Russia to expand their family by adopting a baby boy.
Opening CFC’s doors to gay clientele was simply a non-issue for Diane. She abhors discrimination of any type, and she has close friends and family who are gay – her best male friend in law school, her brother-in-law who is also her son’s godfather, and gay friends with adopted children who were her mentors while she was adopting. She has seen first-hand, therefore, that everyone can make a wonderful parent. To this end, Diane is a regular guest teacher on the topic of surrogacy for same-sex parents at the “Maybe Baby” class for the LGBT community in Washington DC (formerly sponsored by the Whitman Walker Clinic and currently sponsored by Rainbow Families DC). She is passionate about creating opportunities for parents of all types to build families, and this consistently comes across in her presentations and in her representation of single and same-sex clients.
Diane founded Creative Family Connections on the principle that “everyone can build a family.” Creative Family Connections is committed to helping all Intended Parents build their families through non-traditional means, and Diane is particularly sensitive to the hurdles facing Intended Parents in building non-traditional families.
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