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 2011 and Chosen Children 2012. 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 20,000 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.
Lori also had 3 stepchildren with her late companion of 18 years, and, due to family divorces and adoptions, Lori also searched for and found her 2 beloved sisters, Dori and Jo, and her granddaughter, Rachel.
REUNITED: Lori Carangelo and her son, Tom.
 Dori, Lori, and Jo (Sisters) |
 Mimi, John, and Ron (Stepkids) |
 Lori and Rachel (Granddaughter) |
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, and assists incarcerated adoptees in obtaining legal assistance, especially those wrongfully convicted by submitting their documents and requests for DNA analysis to Innocence Projects.
Lori Carangelo: Changing Lives Every Day
("Hero of the month" on "Adopted?...Me Too" site)
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. |
