Adoption Ethics conference


Patricia Irwin Johnston

Patricia (Pat) Irwin Johnston, MS, has spent the last 25 years as an infertility and adoption educator and advocate. The mother of three now young-adults who joined the already broadly-adoption-expanded Johnston family through their adoptions, Ms. Johnston has been a highly visible and outspoken consumer advocate, serving on several national boards of directors and committees and receiving awards from NACAC, JCICS, RESOLVE, APC and a Butler University Alumni Achievement award. She is the author of several books, including the new Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families. Ms. Johnston is also the publisher at Perspectives Press, Inc: The Infertility and Adoption Publisher.