Cris Beam

Watch a live broadcast featuring New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, former New Jersey governor Jim Florio, Slate video producer Aymann Ismail and teacher/writer Cris Beam. 

 Compassion in marketing, criminal justice, classrooms, and personal life.

In our ongoing series on "books that changed your mind", authors Andrew Solomon and Cris Beam talk about the approaches to parenting and kinship in their popular books.

Cris Beam talks about her experience as a foster mother, and describes what it’s like for children growing up in the foster care system—the back-and-forth with agencies, the shuffling between private homes and group homes, the emotionally charged tug of prospective adoptive parents, the pull of biological parents, and aging out of the system. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care draws on Beam’s experience and traces the firsthand stories of kids and parents.