Cordan James, Executive Director of Fathering Together and a transracially adopted person, is a social entrepreneur whose work focuses on education and empowerment. He rose from adversity to become a leading motivational speaker and youth/family mentor, guiding children and adults through exercises designed to build self-esteem, self-reliance, and emotional resilience. His unique insight, a product of being a child that came up through the foster care system, gives him tools built with evidence-based knowledge, along with the empathy necessary to help adoptive and foster families through their unique struggles. Cordan’s talk is a judgment-free zone, aimed at providing real insight into the experiences of adopted and foster children, and his life's work is rooted in mentoring, advocacy, and leaving the world a little better than he found it.