Moore has overcome many obstacles as a foster child in the District to earn a Bill Gates scholarship to Trinity University, thanks in large part to help from CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates program she has worked with since 2008. Moore credits her CASA volunteer, Kristal Wortham, with helping her keep on track. While most foster children age out of the CASA program once they turn 18, Moore stayed on until she was 21 and emancipated from foster care. When did you enter foster care in the District?
I moved to the District of Columbia in 2005 with my biological mother. I never lived with her before, and it was a situation of neglect. I couldn’t stay with myself because she was never there. So I’ve been in foster care since September 2007. I emancipated in March of this year on my 21st birthday.
