Sydney Curtin is a powerful voice for truth in adoption reform, not because she studied it from the sidelines, but because she lived it.

As both an adoptee and a first mother (birth mother), Sydney carries the rare, raw perspective of someone who has walked through adoption from all sides and survived its most painful pitfalls. Her story is not one wrapped in romanticised fiction. It’s real. It’s rooted in trauma. And it’s redemptive.

After experiencing firsthand the devastation of what adoption can look like when it’s done wrong, Sydney made it her mission to spare others from the silence, confusion, and grief she once endured. Through Courageous Considerations, she offers not just insight but a lifeline, an invitation for expectant mothers to walk a mile in her shoes so they don’t have to walk a lifetime in regret.

But her vision doesn’t stop with prevention; it extends into transformation. Sydney is calling on industry professionals, adoption agencies, and legislators through her work to take an unflinching look at the systemic failures harming real families. She advocates for a legal framework that doesn’t just process adoptions but protects the people at the center of them with openness, transparency, and dignity.