Meet Lori
We do not choose the causes we believe in...They choose us.
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| Nationwide Searcher | Activist, Lobbyist, Litigator | Author, Researcher |
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LORI CARANGELO serves as President of AMERICANS FOR OPEN RECORDS (AmFOR), which she founded in 1989, now an international voluntary online network ( AmFOR.net ) concerned with family rights issues and supporting citizen access to true publicly held vital records, certain privately held records, and declassification of certain classified files, for national security.
Lori has written over 600 published articles and a dozen books, including The Ultimate Search Book and Chosen Children. She is retired from 25 years administrative positions with environmental protection, job training/placement and building projects in Santa Barbara and Palm Desert and formerly helped operate the largest printing company in the Palm Springs area.
From her home in the desert, Palm Desert, California, she has helped over 14,000 adoptees and parents to reconnect, without charge. Lori calls her work "a labor of love", compelled by her own loss of her son who was stolen for secret adoption. In 1987, a "search underground" provided her son's adoptive name and whereabouts for $2100 and that is how they were reunited, after she had tried searching for him "within the system" for 18 years. Over the years, they exchanged many cross-country visits.
REUNITED: Lori Carangelo and her son, Tom Schafrick.
Lori served as a data source on adoption to the United Nations "Rights of the Child" Project, the Hague Intercountry Abduction and Adoption Treaty Conferences, as well as for attorneys, and to forensic psychologists who assist incarcerated adoptees in obtaining attorneys. She has also been ghost-writing news commentary (blogs) for attorneys (with a liberal/civil rights leaning) at http://prlawinc.typepad.com/, and is working on her next book. She is listed in Marquis "Who's Who of American Women" (1999 thru 2007) and other biographical directories.
Lori Carangelo: Changing Lives Every Day
("Hero of the month" on "Adopted?...Me Too" site)
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Lori Carangelo: Her Lifelong Quest for Human Rights
by Jess DelBalzo, c. 2001
ALIVE IN MY HEART (My Reunion Story; c. Lori Carangelo 2002)
2-14-02 (Valentine's Day), ABC Affiliate KESQ-TV, Palm Springs reporter interviews missing persons investigator, Lori Carangelo, about missing/murdered child, Danielle Van Dam, and Lori's "Valentine Search" for the truth about her own daughter's fate. |
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