Join us for Adoption Network Cleveland's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 20th in Beachwood. On behalf of Adoption Network Cleveland's Board of Directors, and Executive Director (Betsie Norris) we invite all members, donors, partners, advocates, public officials, and the public to attend this celebration our accomplishments of the last year. The evening will include the presentation of awards - our Volunteer of the Year and Advocate of the Year - followed by a keynote address from author D.M. Pulley.

Location: Case Western Reserve University's Siegal Lifelong Learning. Landmark Centre Building, 25700 Science Park Drive, Suite 100, Beachwood, OH. Located in a four-story glass building facing Richmond Road, between Chagrin and South Woodland.

Keynote Address
Origin Stories with D.M. Pulley: When D.M. Pulley’s grandmother vanished in 1949, her four-year-old father was left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but half-truths and rumors to answer impossible questions. Pulley will discuss the myths and lore that helped her father survive and how she found escape from generational trauma in writing fiction. Telling stories shaped her sense of identity, family, and her place in the world and taking control of her own narrative helped her reframe her past and future.

About D.M.
Before becoming an Amazon best-selling author, D.M. Pulley worked as a Professional Engineer rehabbing historic structures and assessing building failures. Her survey of a vacant building in Cleveland, Ohio inspired her debut, The Dead Key, the winner of the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Since then, Pulley has published three more mystery/thrillers inspired by true-crime in the Rust Belt and sold over 800,000 books worldwide. Her most recent novel, No One’s Home, was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award and named "Best of Horror 2019" by Suspense Magazine. The Cleveland Play House produced Pulley’s “The Christmas House” into a short film in 2020, and her short story “Tremonster” was published in the Cleveland Noir anthology in 2023.

This event is in-person, and an RSVP is requested.