Andrew Bridge 

​Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in Los Angeles County foster care. After aging out, he attended
Wesleyan University, graduated from Harvard Law School, and was awarded a Fulbright
Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. He began his legal career
representing children against the State of Alabama, where his work resulted in the closure of one
of the country’s most notorious psychiatric institutions, the Eufaula Adolescent Center.
Returning to Los Angeles, he became CEO of The Alliance for Children’s Rights, representing
children in the foster care system where he grew up. Andrew is the co-founder of National
Adoption Day and New Village Girls Academy for pregnant and parenting teens. As Chair of
Los Angeles County’s Blue Ribbon Task Force, he called for an end to the disproportionate
removal of Black babies from their mothers. Most recently, he was a member of the executive
management team for Illinois DCFS, and, with Arizona as his home, he now serves on the
Arizona Foster Care Review Board.

His memoir, Hope’s Boy, was a New York Times Bestseller and honored as a Best Book of the
Year by The Washington Post. His latest book, The Child Catcher, released in September, is also
a National Bestseller, earning accolades such as the Kirkus Starred Literary Review and a Best
Indie Book of 2024, the PenCraft Book 1st Place Award for Nonfiction Literary Excellence, the
Digital Book Today 1st Place Award for Inspirational Nonfiction, a nomination for the American
Library Association’s Alex Prize, and the American Writing Awards Non-Fiction Book of the
Year. Publisher’s Weekly BookLife praised the book, writing, “Bridge’s most inspiring task is his
determination to empower readers with the knowledge to challenge systems that fail vulnerable
children.”