Margaret Schwartz

Angels in Adoption 2005 - Virginia

Selected by Representataive James Moran

Margaret Schwartz was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She moved to the Washington, DC, area after completing college and has spent the past 25 years building a thriving sales and marketing career. Today, Margaret is a successful marketing consultant and single mother of two adopted children. Through her book, "The Pumpkin Patch: A Single Woman's International Adoption Journey," she discusses how her life was transformed after traveling to Ukraine to adopt two young boys. She has enhanced her life through a renewed spiritual faith with the belief that one can accomplish anything in life. Margaret has become an adoption advocate and is working with several charities to improve the well-being of orphaned and abandoned children in Ukraine.