Meet The Staff
Our staff has unparalleled compassion with decades of experience working with women experienced unplanned pregnancies and adoptive families.
The staff at A New Beginning Adoption Agency are crisis pregnancy professionals and adoption professionals with personal experience as adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and birth parents. We are a non-profit, licensed adoption agency. Our goal is to provide compassionate support to women who need unplanned pregnancy support and resources, as well as to create families through adoption. A New Beginning’s services also include essential post-adoption services to everyone involved; adopted children, birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Cara Walsh, LSW
Executive Director
Amber Kidd, BSW
Foster Adopt and Home Builders Supervisor
Kaitlyn Judy, BSW
Infant Program Specialist
Joy Williams, BSc
Program Support Specialist
Amber Stiles
Marketing Director
Vanessa Smith
Office Manager
Stephanie Pearl, LSW, Founder
In Loving Memory, Founder, 1972-2025
Meet the Board of Directors
Meet the Board of Directors, a group of local professionals who have their own adoption stories or connections. Each has joined A New Beginning’s team by donating their time towards building families through adoption. We are grateful to them for their support and encouragement. If you are interested in joining our board of directors, please reach out here.
Andrea Busman
Board President & Treasurer
Kim Schafer
Board Secretary
Meg Ingram
Outreach Coordinator
Kim Cutler
Member
Holly Mills
Member
