Regina Louise
Author & Child Advocate
Regina Louise
Author & Child Advocate
Biography
Regina Louise is the founder of Writing For Your Life.org, a boutique coaching agency where words are employed, explored, and engaged with, to heal, and build worlds.
Regina’s newest work, Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love (New World Library, June 2021) is her first-ever personal growth offering.
Her bestselling memoirs Somebody’s Someone and I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, were nominated for numerous awards including a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Best Director, and a Christopher Award, which it won for “upholding the highest essence of triumph of the spirit,” for a television film.
A summa cum laud graduate of University of California Riverside with a Master of Fine Arts terminal degree. Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, a workshop facilitator and motivational speaker who resides in the San Francisco bay Area.
Her story has been featured in media outlets such as Good Morning America, NPR’s All Things Considered, Lee Harris Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, Essence Magazine, CNN, HLN and many more.
Speaker Videos
I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story Trailer
Oprah Audition: The Regina Louise Hour
Good Morning America: On Foster Care and Adoption
Make A Pledge
Speech Topics
Triumph of Spirit
Despite having found love, attachment and a commitment to have a forever family, Regina Louise’s plea to belong to the one woman who wanted her was denied by a court of law. During her presentation: Regina will discuss her humble beginnings, her exit from foster care without permanency; and touch upon the trials and tribulations that shaped her — ultimately — for the better.