OA&FS staff & board
Our team is small but mighty, and we all share one important quality: We care deeply about the needs of the clients we serve. We meet people where they are and support them in determining the path forward. Our counselors have training and experience in social services and compassionately navigate a range of situations with expectant parents, prospective adoptive parents, and members of the adoption constellation. Our support staff keep everything running smoothly thanks to expertise in program management, client support, and communications. Our Board of Directors is led by a birth parent and comprises adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. This means our services are shaped and endorsed by people with lived adoption experience.
OA&FS staff
Adam Thomas, Operations Manager
Adam first joined the Eugene OA&FS team in 2016. He grew up in Oklahoma, but his love of the outdoors brought him to the great state of Oregon in 2014. He has a passion for helping others, and finds he does his best work through providing assistance to those in need. He enjoys volunteering his time at the sake of making someone’s day better, and loves to share his knowledge and expertise when he sees an opportunity to jump in and help. He is passionate about open adoption, and the work OA&FS does, not only with counseling and open adoption but within the pro-choice community as a whole.
Delphine Veith, LICSW, Program Manager
Delphine joined OA&FS as a counselor in 2015, and became Program Manager in 2021. She supports all counseling staff and works with partners in the hospital and social work landscapes to educate and advocate for unbiased all-options pregnancy counseling and ethical, adoptee-centered practices. Delphine has an MSW from University of Washington. Prior to OA&FS, she held a variety of positions supporting youth and families, including 6 years with Planned Parenthood. Delphine is passionate about reproductive justice, amplifying adoptee voices, and supporting all clients in making informed, empowered decisions about if, when and how they become parents.
Jan Jamieson, BA, Counselor
Jan joined the OA&FS team in 2005. Her background is in family studies and psychology, and she has worked with children, youth and families during her entire professional career. Through her work at OA&FS, Jan values the opportunity to deepen her understanding about adoption through listening to people with lived adoption experience, and to share that knowledge with others.
Katie Raser, MSW, LMHC, Counselor
Katie joined OA&FS in 2023. She has worked in social services since receiving her master’s degree in social work in 2008, including as a social worker for DCYF, a cancer information specialist for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and, most recently, as an individual mental health therapist. Katie is honored to be a part of the OA&FS team and is committed to working toward reproductive justice, equitable access to health care, and ethical and child-centered adoptions. She is also an ICEA certified childbirth and infant care educator, as well as a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Washington.
Leah Lusk, MA, LMHC, Content Specialist
Leah joined OA&FS in 2021 as a counselor, and worked in that capacity for three years before transitioning to focusing on the agency’s content-related needs. Counseling was her second career after many years as an editor, and the common thread for her has always been helping people write their own stories. She is now responsible for writing and editing the majority of the agency’s communications. She was drawn to OA&FS because of the organization’s commitment to transparency, openness, and continual teaching and learning.
Lori Maas, Client Services Manager
Lori has been at the support helm of OA&FS since 1999. She enjoys working closely with prospective adoptive parents as they explore their options and providing ongoing support to both clients and counseling staff throughout the adoption process.
Nicole Jevons, Outreach Coordinator & Administrative Assistant
Nicole is proud to continue their work in the reproductive justice field by joining OA&FS in 2023. Dedicated to improving the communities she has lived in, Nicole has worked on local, state, and national campaigns, in DEI services, and at a Planned Parenthood health clinic. They are eager to connect the vast offerings of OA&FS to local service organizations as they know change can only happen when we all work together. They are honored to be part of a compassionate team who values transparency, vulnerability, and respect.
Sari Prevost, MA, Counselor
Sari came to OA&FS in 2002, and loves how she is always challenged to be the best that she can be at her job. She is impressed and inspired by the families she works with that allow her to witness their transformation as they move through amazing journeys. Sari is honored to be a part of an agency that has great integrity and is truly a leader in fully open, respectful, hospitious adoptions.
Suzie Williams, MA, Executive Director
Suzie joined OA&FS in 1993. She gained perspective and a deep understanding of the complex issues faced by pregnant individuals and by families in the adoption constellation through years of working first as a Counselor and then as a Program Manager. Suzie became Executive Director in May 2021 and is proud to lead an organization committed to reproductive choice and best practices in open adoption. She appreciates that the agency is always evolving as we learn from the people we serve, including those living in open adoptions.
OA&FS board of directors
Garrett Garfield, President
OA&FS birth father
Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP
Jason Plowman, Vice President
OA&FS adoptive parent
Shareholder / Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC
Kelly Groark, Treasurer
OA&FS adoptive parent
Director, Technical Accounting
Brooks Sports, Inc.
Lesli Johnson, Secretary
Adoptee & adoptive parent
VP Casualty Risk Control, CNA Insurance
Sage Carter
OA&FS birth mother
Patient Access Specialist, OHSU
Nathan Faust
OA&FS adoptee
College Application Consultant
Adam Carmel
OA&FS adoptive parent
Clinical Psychologist, University of Washington at Harborview
Heather Gingerich
OA&FS adoptive parent
Director of Initiative Partnerships, College Spark Washington
Liz Milan
OA&FS adoptive parent
Vice President, Procurement ZoomInfo
Nickey Sanders
OA&FS birth mother
Content Creator & Personal Development Coach
Chris Chandler
OA&FS adoptive parent
Mental Health Professional & Co-owner, Sodapup Dog Enrichment Toys
Nijole Yutkowitz
Adoptive parent
Development Consultant & former adoption professional