In this episode, our hosts Serita Cox and Keira Green interview Rochelle Trochtenberg – Former California Foster Care Ombudsperson in Sacramento, Calif. is the first former foster youth to be appointed to serve in this role. She is responsible for educating foster youth and caregivers about their rights, investigating complaints related to the care, placement, and services of youth in foster care, and providing policy recommendations on improving California’s child welfare system. The conversation covers:What Rochelle’s role is as the Ombudsperson here in California. Rochelle’s vision for youth growing up in foster care.Rochelle and Serita talk about bridging the digital divide, together.Rochelle talks about tech and the Foster Youth Bill of Rights.Keira adds personal context to foster youth having technology.Rochelle expands on how she advocates and gets changes made.How Rochelle persevered through myriad of setbacks to where she is now.Final thoughts from Serita, Keira and Rochelle.

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