Education
She attended Molly Dawson elementary school and left at the age of eleven.
She attended Molly Dawson elementary school and left at the age of eleven.
Louise is the second child of the late singer/songwriter Tom Brock. Regina Louise was born in Austin, Texas on May 2. Due to her father"s estrangement, Regina turned herself in to the Richmond Police Department and was taken into custody on May 1, 1975, the day before her thirteenth birthday.
She is well known for her work as a foster care abolitionist.
She lived in over 30 foster homes, group homes and psychiatric facilities before age 18. After missing many years of formal education and being labeled "below-average or marginal at best", she is a now speaker on children"s issues, a National Child Permanency Advocate and a spokesperson for Foster Care Awareness Month.
She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hopes to finish a college degree she started more than thirty years ago. Author of the self-memoir Somebody"s Someone, she has appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and the Columbia Broadcasting System Early Show.
Regina and her story have also been covered in various newspapers and magazines.
She is currently writing a second memoir. According to Regina, she devotes her life to helping others as a speaker attempting to raise awareness about the plight of foster children. In seven short years, Regina Louise has delivered her message of hope, optimism and inspiration to well over four million people.
Her goal is to speak to every state in the nation on the significance of all children finding life-time connections.