Ex-foster child credits CASA volunteer at luncheon

Keynote speaker Amira Therese speaks to attendees at the CASA luncheon about her experiences with a CASA volunteer as a foster child. – Photos by Scott Swanson

Amira Therese had already been in dozens of different placements as a foster child when she found herself, at age 15, in Henderson, Nev., in, she realized, a trafficking house.

Therese, now an author and activist based in Arizona, is also the host of the podcast “Interview with a Foster Kid,” which exposes realities of the foster care system that “most people never see,” according to the show’s explainer. She was the keynote speaker at…

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