David Marin

As a single parent, David Marin – a pale male – adopted three Hispanic siblings abandoned by felons and shuffled among foster homes in Santa Barbara, California. His book, This is US – The New All-American Family, was excerpted in Reader’s Digest worldwide: 17 million copies in 21 languages. His children, ages two, four and six when David met them, are now healthy, happy teenagers.

“This is US fills the world with the breath of hope.” Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean, Oprah’s first Book Club selection.

“The love is palpable; the prose throbs with life; the insights sparkle.” Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

David speaks about social services reform, teens and drugs, immigration reform, foster care, adoption, discrimination, and raising children in multi-ethnic families. An attorney by training and former Vice-President of two multi-media companies, David is now the host of Mister Mom, a talk radio show about parenting, broadcast every Sunday on KSCO 1080 AM, the CBS Radio News affiliate in the Monterey Bay area, and every Thursday on KZSB 1290 AM, the BBC affiliate in Santa Barbara and Ventura.

(Link to Reader’s Digest article: http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/the-birth-of-a-family/)

For more about David and his works, go to http://www.mistermomradio.com/