Amy Paulson

Amy Paulson is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Gratitude Alliance, a San Francisco-based non-profit focused on trauma recovery and healing for vulnerable communities lacking access to mental health support.

Once an orphan herself, Amy is passionate about healing and transformation for children who have lost their mothers and for women and men who most need to reclaim their inner mother. She's served in the non-profit sector as a volunteer, international program manager, finance manager, and board member focusing on projects benefiting orphans and vulnerable children in the U.S. and abroad.

Amy’s debut book will chronicle her journey growing up as an adoptee in a biracial family, reuniting with her birth parents, and consider what it means embrace gratitude as a powerful catalyst for change – at an individual, community, and global level.