Brooke received her B.A. from Macalester College in psychology and
communication studies. She returned to Minnesota from North Carolina after
receiving her MSW with a concentration in Direct Practice with Families and
Children from UNC-Chapel Hill; she is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker.
Brooke is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Family Social Science. She works
with the Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project; her current research
interests include levels of openness in adoption, adoptee information
seeking about birth family, and emerging adulthood among adopted persons.
