Ashley Rhodes-Courter

       Ashley Rhodes-Courter was born in North Carolina in 1985. She fell into the foster care system at the age of three. During the next nine years of her life she was placed into fourteen different homes before being adopted at the age of twelve by Phil and Gay Courter. Ashley graduated with honors from Eckerd College. There she completed a double major in communications and theatre also with a double minor in political science and psychology. She serves on a few child welfare boards including, Children Without a Voice USA and Family Focus Adoption Services. This is the only book Ashley Rhodes-Courter has ever written and she states she could have never done it without her loving mother, Gay Courter.