Amy Demma, a New York State licensed attorney, is a long-term family and children's advocate beginning her legal career advising parents of mentally and disabled children at the Association for the Help of Retarded Children. She has served on the Mother and Child's HIV Task Force of the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association and is credentialed in Family Mediation through the Harvard Law School Mediation Program.
Passionately committed to family advocacy, Amy is a proud affiliate of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, holding a past Board position as Education Chairperson for RESOLVE, New York City and has served on the Advocacy and Legislative Committee for RESOLVE of the Bay State. As a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, she sits on the Legal Practitioners Group of ASRM, as well as the Women's Council. She is on the By-Laws Committee of the New England Fertility Society and is an active member of the Reproductive Law Section of the American Bar Association as well as a regular contributor to the American Fertility Association.
Considered an industry expert in third-party reproduction, Amy is a published author and regular speaker on topics related to alternative family building, including as a guest lecturer on the topic at Tufts University. She has recently been quoted in an article on ethnic donors in The Chicago Tribune, interviewed by NPR, Vanity Fair magazine and CNN, as well as contributed to a documentary on family-building through egg donation and surrogacy scheduled to air on LifeTime Television. Currently Amy is working with New England Cable News to develop programming content on infertility for NECN Health Works.
Based on the pillars of Collaboration, Commitment and Success, Prospective Families was founded in 2006 by Amy, as an agency whose practices and policies are driven by the standards for ethical donation established by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Federal Drug Administration for donor screening. Amy understands that relationship-building with clinics and other industry professionals ensure the necessary and effective collaboration of all parties committed to the successful outcome of the cycle.
Amy has met with and counseled hundreds of donors and advised and addressed as many prospective parents both across the US and internationally. So far in 2008, Amy is celebrating with her clients, the births of 20 babies, with 21 more, healthily on their way. Since launching Prospective Families in 2006, over 77% of Prospective Families’ clients have achieved pregnancy and are still on-track to parenting, in line with clinical success rates.
Most importantly, Amy is the proud and blessed mother of 13 year-old twins conceived through In Vitro Fertilization. Amy is highly regarded and well respected by her peers, colleagues, clients and donors and it is from these many good folks that she became inspired to create Prospective Families.
