Board Chair and Vice Chair of Moms Adopting Moms (See Meet our Founders for their Bio's)
Meet Jackson!
Board Secretary
Jackson is happily married to Rachel and together they have a beautiful one year old son named Jack. Jackson graduated from UGA with a business management degree and has been working most recently as a financial advisor taking an educative approach in helping with people’s finances including budgeting, retirement, proper protection and estate planning. Jackson hopes to continue to utilize his passion for business and finance to help others receive financial freedom. He will teach regular finance classes to both foster and biological families in his work as secretary of the board.
Meet Christine!
Christine M. Scartz is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law where she teaches Family Law and Law & Social Justice. She is also the director of the School of Law’s Jane W. Wilson Family Justice Clinic, which provides free representation to indigent victims of domestic violence and stalking in protective order cases. Before joining the law school’s faculty in August 2015, Scartz worked as an associate attorney with a Gwinnett County law firm, where she handled a domestic relations and criminal law practice. She has also served as an appointed attorney for criminal appeals in the Gwinnett County Superior Court, where she represented indigent criminal defendants in postconviction proceedings, and as a litigation associate in a Roswell, Georgia, law firm
Meet Sallie!
Sallie Zehna Starrett is the CEO of Brightpaths, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing child abuse in Athens and the surrounding area. Sallie is a proud Athens native who holds a BS in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia. With almost 15 years experience in the non-profit sector, her favorite part of her work is serving alongside a team of people who have a shared burden to accomplish a meaningful mission. Sallie’s career
focuses on child welfare and family preservation, and she’s had the joy of seeing countless families reach their goals of reunification, improved relationship, parenting breakthrough, and more. She and her husband are foster parents who champion the reunification of
families. They have 3 young children who keep them busy and laughing! Together, they love spending time together cheering on the Dawgs, trying new Athens restaurants, and playing outside!